Patrick Thomas
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995 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2018
last heard May 2024
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That's still pretty new.
Well, one country in particular that kind of got a lot of the conversation started again, especially on social media, was in Iceland.
There was a study that was recently published with a group of about 2,500 employees who were working shorter hours during the week and
And the study came out and showed that they were just as productive as before and had better work-life balance, had better mental health, improved their productivity and reduced stress.
That kind of got a lot of the conversation going.
That was in Iceland.
And there's been a big push from the union of municipal workers there to work 36 hours a week as opposed to 40.
And that's not new.
We've seen outside of the U.S.
France about 20 years ago went to a 35-hour work week for government employees to try and recruit more.
Spain recently said in March that they were going to do something similar there.
So, while some people question whether it actually does help these governments recruit more employees, some are experimenting with it or have fully committed to trying it.
In the case of Iceland, they commissioned a full study to look at it, and the results were pretty positive for them.
And then we've seen some larger companies try pilots in other places.
There was a trial from Microsoft in Japan two years ago, but that only went for five weeks and it ended.
But we've seen some other markets try some sort of pilots in the past.
Well, broadly implementing a four-day workweek, just saying, hey, this is cool, I want to try this, doesn't necessarily work.
Some of the experts we talked to said this requires a lot of planning and a lot of forethought in terms of
How are you going to spread the day out?
Are you going to spread the day out?
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