Posted on 01/06/2020 2:27:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Finland has been at the forefront of flexible work schedules for years, starting with a 1996 law that gives most employees the right to adjust their hours up to three hours earlier or later than what their employer typically requires.
The country’s newly installed political leader, Sanna Marin, just upped the ante, though, proposing to put the entire country on a four-day workweek consisting of six-hour workdays.
Marin, the world’s youngest sitting prime minister and the leader of a five-party center-left coalition, said the policy would allow people to spend more time with their families and that this could be “the next step” in working life.
Marin is not the first politician to recently float the idea of scaling back work hours. Neighboring Sweden tested out six-hour work days a couple of years ago. And the UK’s Labour Party said in September that if elected, it would bring a 32-hour working week to the UK within 10 years. (It wasn’t elected, however, and details on how hours would be structured were in any case vague.) In France, the standard work week is 35 hours, reduced from 39 hours in 2000.
A slew of companies around the world have been running their own experiments lately. Perpetual Guardian, a small New Zealand firm that helps clients manage financial estates, trialed a four-day work week before formally adopting the policy in November 2018. Its CEO, Andrew Barnes, is now an evangelist for the idea. In Ireland, a recruiting firm called ICE Group shifted to a four-day workweek and found that people’s habits changed, with staffers taking fewer breaks and checking social media less often.
Both firms are small—Perpetual Guardian trialed the schedule with 240 employees; ICE Group has a staff of about 50 people in Ireland. But larger companies have been experimenting, too.
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“I could think of 24 hours of work to do with her.”
We were at work discussing Elliot Spitzer’s $5,000 per hour hooker. While we talked an engineer took out his calculator and tick, tick, ticked away. He announced, “I need $14.07 cents worth of her time.”
Check your math...
Those eyes! Beautiful!
(I’m in Loooovvve!)
And the toast will be made by the cheap imported labor that will not be subject to those pesky labor laws.
DK
You’re not too bad yourself. :)
four days
six hours
Now that’s a special kind of stupid.
So we can only get hammered one night a week?...
ROFL!!!
:)
How’s it feel to want?
Good looking people don’t have to work hard.
Truthfully, just because one is Socialist, doesn’t mean they are not intelligent.
In a country like Finland, I think it will work.
They don’t have millions of losers like we do.
Intelligent, hard working, homogeneous peoples...
Not guilty by reason of insanity. Bring her to my home for acute therapy.
I apologize, I should check my reading comprehension.
I didn’t notice the 6 hours instead of 8.
No. What's stupid is paying people to sit at home and do nothing but make babies.
That's what we do.
What percentage of Finland's small, homogenous, educated, law-abiding population are comprised of able-bodied adults who are paid to sit home, get high, steal, and procreate? Probably not many.
I think her idea makes perfect sense. Hope we can do the same soon.
“The problem will be what to do with the vast population of laborers whose skills are no longer needed?”
Soylent Green. ;)
Well, it depends on what time of day you want to work your two hours.
That’s exactly it. She really has no concept of any other way of life.
Either your employer would have to pay you less, or his costs would rise substantially for the product or service you deliver.
Do you wish to be paid 24/40ths of what you have been?
Do you think your employer will want to pay you 100% of what you have been receiving for 24/40ths of the same work?
None of us favor Welfare as we know it.
We need to address that, not kill businesses.
i would be more than willing to attempt to straighten her out with injection therapy...
In Finland, it's all about the sauna (loosely pronounced SOW-NAA over there).
Been there twice on business, it's actually a pretty nice country and very organized. Never did make it up into the arctic circle though.
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