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The story that attracted the most interest from our audience in July was Lara Herrero from Griffith University’s piece on how the symptoms of the Delta variant appear to differ from traditional COVID symptoms. It has been read more than 1,882,000 times! 94% of the article’s readers were from outside Australia, showing there is a global appetite for evidence-based health information as the Delta strain surges in many countries.
Our second-most read article in July was Anthony Veal from the University of Technology Sydney’s piece on how the success of Iceland’s supposed ‘four-day workweek’ trial has been overstated, which garnered over 414,000 reads. Tony was subsequently interviewed by ABC Radio, Reuters Europe, Canadian radio and for our global podcast The Conversation Weekly.
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The success of Iceland s four-day week trial greatly overstated
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The success of Iceland s four-day week trial greatly overstated
It almost seems too good to be true: a major trial in Iceland shows that cutting the standard five-day week to four days for the same pay needn t cost employers a cent (or, to be accurate, a krona).
Unfortunately, it is too good to be true.
While even highly reputable media outlets such as the BBC have reported on the overwhelming success of large-scale trials of a four-day week in Iceland from 2015 to 2019, that s not actually the case.