Posted on 01/04/2017 5:07:33 AM PST by Beowulf9
Swedes looking forward to a six-hour workday just got some bad news: the costs outweigh the benefits.
A two-year experiment cutting working hours while maintaining pay levels for nurses at Svartedalen old people’s home in the Swedish city of Gothenburg is now nearing the end. The take away was largely positive, with nurses at the home feeling healthier, which reduced sick-leave, and patient care improving.
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If nurses REALLY cared about sick people, they would take a big pay cut...or even work for FREE!
gotta support all the muslims no more money for social goodies
Most of them do really care about sick people, but that doesn’t negate the fact that the job can be physically and emotionally exhausting. Sick patients can be extremely nasty to caretakers.
Many hospitals in the U.S. have adopted a 3 day on, 4 day off or vice versa work schedule for nurses. The nurses I’ve talked to really like this because even though the hours of the days on are long, the long stretch off gives them lots of time to pursue other interests and to recuperate.
Unexpected.
My daughter is a nurse who works such a schedule.
She likes the time off to recuperate, plus the fact that the downtime gives her a chance to pursue additional education.
High taxes, extremely generous benefits to those who don’t work, and cutting back on the hours of work for those who do have job.
Even an idiot can see that that is a formula for failure.
I worked at a company that went to a 36-hour work week.
There were two ‘shifts.’
Shift A worked ten hours a day Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, then half a day (six hours) until noon on Sunday.
Shift B worked Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and the second half of Sunday.
It allowed the company to operate a minimum of ten hours a day, seven days a week .
As for the employees, we loved being off half a week every week. The only drawback was the expense of keeping oneself entertained half the week.
Who could have seen that coming?
The reduced-hour workweek could (possibly) work for industries where the workers interact with computers/machines/etc that just get turned off at the end of the day. The problem with doing this for nurses is that their patients don’t just disappear at the end of the shift; someone still has to be there taking care of them, hence the need for additional staff. If this same experiment were tried at e.g. a software company or some other organization that doesn’t have a 24/7 aspect to it, I think they might see a better ROI.
Marxists have to be ready for pay cuts if they want to remain faithful to their church.
Who do they think they are congressmen.
Train and hire those people who don’t work to work the hours that currently-working people are no longer working for. Increase employment that way.
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