“Work smarter, not harder” gets attached to Scandinavia so often that it is worth checking what actually happened when Icelandic and Swedish institutions tested the idea directly, rather than simply repeating it as a national trait. Between 2015 and 2019, Reykjavik City and the Icelandic national government ran large-scale trials cutting the working week from […]
  • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
    28·
    5 days ago

    TLDR: it works. But if you need to cover 24h in a day (care, hospital, etc) you will need more people.

    But: most jobs don’t have to cover 24h.

    • h4mi@lemmy.zipEnglish
      17·
      5 days ago

      I firmly believe that most office jobs could be done in 6 hours/day with no noticable difference in productivity. Stagger the hours between workers to fill up the required hours if necessary. Let morning people start earlier and let me sleep.

      • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        61·
        5 days ago

        Last time I worked in an office, I was there 8,75 hours a day, 0,75 hours were break, I was out on a smoke break for another hour (in total) and chatting with coworkers in the kitchen for another two. Still managed to get everything done and had some idle time where I researched stuff or ran tests etc.

  • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    Meanwhile german chancelor wants everyone to work more hours to solve a worker shortness that doesnt exist amidst an AI driven labor shortage…