Finland’s new 34 year old prime minister wants her country on a four-day workweek

Quartz via Yahoo News ^ | 01/06/2020 | Michelle Cheng

[SeekAndFind]

SANNA MARIN, FINLAND's NEW 34 YEAR OLD PRIME MINISTER

[dp0622]

I could think of 24 hours of work to do with her.

[blueunicorn6]

Well, maybe those fin folk need more time to go swimming.

[BBQToadRibs]

I’d need, NEED, a second job to pay the bills if I was hourly.

[EEGator]

I wish we had 4 day work weeks.

P.S. I want to make babies with her...

[Drango]

I keep looking for the rainbow unicorn that shoots skittles out its rear.

[billyboy15]

WOW what a great idea!!

An employee earns $50,000 per year for 40 hrs work and suddenly has his work week chopped by 40% to 24 hrs and still gets paid the same $50,000 with benefits!!

What could go wrong?

[DannyTN]

Nice, but why stop at 4 days. Why not 3 days?

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Not Guilty!

[goldstategop]

12 of the 19 ministers in her five party coalition cabinet are women.

Marin is a Social Democrat from the city of Tampere.

[SeekAndFind]

I think they still work 40 hours per week. Except it will be more than the standard 8 hours a day. It will now be officially 10 hours a day.

[Captain Peter Blood]

The question is will productivity increase or go down. You have a 6 hour workday how much will get done?

[Drew68]

Nice, but why stop at 4 days. Why not 3 days?

Eventually we'll get there as well, shorter work weeks and shorter work days being the trend throughout all of human history.

I call it the "Star Trek" future in which computers and machines do most of the work. A small population of highly-educated technicians are needed only to ensure the machines are running smoothly. Most of our time is freed up for leisure or scholarly pursuit.

The problem will be what to do with the vast population of laborers whose skills are no longer needed?

[Jonty30]

So, your children can ride the short bus?

Intelligence comes from the mother.

[PGR88]

Finland’s new 34 year old prime minister wants her country on a four-day workweek

...And free avocado toast and quinoa bowls for the whole population.

[dp0622]

ROFL

I’m liking you more and more :)

[southern rock]

A small, homogeneous country can get away with this kind of experimentation. It may work.

[SamAdams76]

80% of the work gets done in the first two hours of each workday.

So my idea is to have six day work weeks consisting of two hours a day.

[DannyTN]

The problem will be what to do with the vast population of laborers whose skills are no longer needed?

Possibilities:

• Give them dirt on Clinton.
• Give them a virtual reality and used them as batteries.
• Colonize other planets with them.
• Harvest their brains into a combined super conciousness to outthink AI.

[dfwgator]