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Iceland s Short Work Week Trial Declared An Overwhelming Success
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When the industrial revolution took hold, work dominated life so severely that it was common for people to work 16 hours daily, six days a week. Eventually, people realized how unhealthy this was, and the late 1800s saw a demand for better regulation of work hours. The US federal laws set the maximum workweek to 40 hours, and anything beyond that was regarded as overtime pay. That five-day, 40-hour week stuck so well it was entrenched in the 20th century.
Between 2005 and 2015, as work hours increased, productivity per hour decreased. (Credit: Alda, Association for Democracy and Sustainability, 2021)
However, there has recently been a push to reduce the hours of a standard workweek down again. Several successful “four-day week” experiments have shown significant benefits to cutting the workweek down. In 2018, a prominent New Zealand trial found widespread productivity improvements and worker engagement after asking employees to deliver the same o
4-day week in Iceland: Almost 9 out of 10 Icelanders are entitled to work shorter hours
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4-day work week trials in Iceland deemed overwhelming success by researchers
By Kelly Hayes
Microsoft Japan boosted productivity by 40 percent by switching to a four-day work week
Compared to a year prior, sales per employee in August 2019 were found to be 40 percent higher, while total working days were down 25.4 percent.
Trials of a four-day work week held in Iceland were deemed an overwhelming success by researchers in a new report.
Iceland conducted two large-scale trials involving over 2,500 workers, which is about 1% of Iceland s entire working-age population. Participants were from a wide range of workplaces, including offices, hospitals, schools and social service providers. Participants in the trials worked 35-36 hours per week with no cut in pay.