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Iceland's Short Work Week Trial Declared An "Overwhelming Success" awaken.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from awaken.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
July 16, 2021 Share 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 del ....
WHYY By Iceland has found that a shorter workweek has improved the well-being of its workforce while not cutting into productivity. (Halldor Kolbeins/AFP via Getty Images) As many people contemplate a future in which they don’t need to commute to offices, the idea of working less altogether also has its appeal. Now, research out of Iceland has found that working fewer hours for the same pay led to improved well-being among workers, with no loss in productivity. In fact, in some places, workers were more productive after cutting back their hours. Granted, Iceland is tiny. Its entire workforce amounts to about 200,000 people. But 86% of Iceland’s working population has moved to shorter hours or has the right to negotiate such a schedule, according to a report by the Association for Democracy and Sustainability and the think tank Autonomy. This follows two successful trials, involving 2,500 workers, that the report called “a major success.” ....
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Iceland Cut Its Work Week And Found Greater Happiness And No Loss In Productivity kanw.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kanw.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.