Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to research released Friday.

  • Diplomjodler
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    4228 days ago

    It’s not about productivity, it’s about compliance. The modern corporate world is constructed to preserve power structures, not to be efficient.

  • @twistypencil
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    2228 days ago

    I’ve also got a four day work week because my job is awesome, and I love it

    • Flying Squid
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      1128 days ago

      I’ve got a zero day work week because I don’t have a job.

      Yay me.

        • Flying Squid
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          728 days ago

          Considering how sick I am, I don’t think that’s advisable.

          That’s why I’m not working in the first place.

            • Flying Squid
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              728 days ago

              If posting on Lemmy wasn’t the only way for me to have a regular social life…

    • Capt. Wolf
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      628 days ago

      Gotta say, as much as i will bitch about my job, my work week is only 4 days as well. Because of the way our schedule is laid out, I have about 1 week straight off each month. If I time my vacations right, that extends to 2 weeks. Next month, I’m spending a week in Canada, but I’ll actually be off for half the month.

  • sp3ctr4l
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    Can I become a famous economist who goes on the news circuit if I just take the Laffer curve and change the axes to ‘work hours in a week’ and ‘actual productivity’?

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    28 days ago

    Between 2020 and 2022, 51% of workers in the country had accepted the offer of shorter working hours, including a four-day week, two think tanks found, saying the figure is likely to be even higher today.

    I feel like a Think Tank should be like a giant Bacta tank, that mentally links everyone inside.

    • sp3ctr4l
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      127 days ago

      Old World Blues basically made the metaphor literal.

      IIRC, the main… antagonists? idiot people who think they are geniuses? … they are literally brains, in tanks, hooked up to computers or transplanted into robots…

      And the actual name of the building they live in is ‘The Think Tank’.

      https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/The_Think_Tank

      If you’ve never played New Vegas or Old World Blues…I highly recommend it. Legitimately some of the funniest writing, dialogue options, and absurd situations I’ve seen in a game.

  • @Randelung
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    428 days ago

    I always wonder what “no reduction in pay” means. Do they refer to monthly compensation or hourly rates?

    • @BluesF
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      528 days ago

      You get paid for four days what you used to get paid for five.