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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Miss Marin is not old enough to know just how stupid she is. Not being aware of what she doesn’t know is a scary thing. Finland has to be now the stupidest country on the planet.
Think of their IQ with such a mama.
Another millennial who fears work.
That will produce a no-hour workday no-hour no-pay. abusinesses that stay in business will have no choice but to go robotic and AI all the way as human labor is way too expensive. The mandated reduction in hours is surely accompanied by a requirement that weekly pay not be altered.
Wisdom is not intelligence.
I think I saw it IN San Francisco...but shooting thc
Not a real country. But the verdict is in “not guilty”
Damn, sounds like my old job. Got real tired of killing myself for basically crumbs that fell to the floor.
I’m fairly well compensated but I expected more than the crumbs I got for busting my butt.
It’s a subsidiary of a Fortune 500 comes any and the project is probably the most high profile one we have going on.
I had a 4 day workweek job for about 5 years. Worked Fridays, Saturdays, Mondays and Tuesdays. 12 hour shifts, 48 hour weeks. I chose to have Sundays off. The work was demanding and those 3 days off went by quick.
I’m sorry I don’t even know what the article was about I just want to test air mattresses with her :)
JK It’s a silly idea.
When I did graphics at an investment bank, the investment bankers would bring down work at any time and they wanted it done quickly.
They didn’t care if you sat there playing video games for 2 hours. When they had work, they wanted it done and they wanted someone available.
24/7 operation, that graphics center.
Having FOUR shifts a day come in instead of 3 (and a number of people did 10 or 12 hours shifts) would be a disaster.
I’ve been called Laz jr. before. It’s an honor :)
And yeah when I had a summer home with friends in NJ as a yoot, bail money was always set aside.
Man how things change :) The spirit is willing but the body is beat up :)
How are you? Still going tomorrow I HOPE?
Ah, that just turns me on more.
I’ve got issues :)
I’ve always liked the crazy ones.
And I’ve always paid the price.
Say what you will about Finland,but they produce some great metal bands.
Nightwish, Apocalyptica, Stratovarius, Lordi, Sonata Arctica, Wintersun and many more. I wish the US music industry would take note.
>>”Say what you will about Finland,but they produce some great metal bands. Nightwish, Apocalyptica, Stratovarius, Lordi, Sonata Arctica, Wintersun and many more. I wish the US music industry would take note.”
Free Republic got a mosh pit now? Let’s Circle Thrash a bit, then...Wall of Death and go for a beer and Band Aids.
In city government, I worked a four-day week for several years, Tuesday through Friday, 10 hours a day. It was wonderful. It’s great to hit Sunday evening and think, “I don’t have to go to work tomorrow.”
Yep. I saw the doc about 9:30 this morning. His waiting room looked like a holding pen for patients with the Black Plague. I’ve never seen it so packed, and when I got an available exam room, every other room had someone in it, coughing their lungs up. About 30 minutes ago, I got me some Azithromycin for the bug, Prednisone for my airway, Cherrytussin with codeine for the raw throat, and I medicated myself. Heh heh heh. Gotta keep an eye on the cough syrup, or the wife will be nipping at it. “*cough* *cough* You gave me your germs.” LOL!
What you are inferring is that people screw off a part of their time at work.
Changing the hours from 40 to 24 won’t change that.
People will still crew off the same percentage they always did.
As for my work career, there’s no way in hell I could have gotten done what I did in two hours less per week. I was taking work home throughout my career.
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