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Swedish Six-Hour Workday Trial Runs into Trouble: Too Expensive
- lesserknowndan 10y agoIs this an example of a "straw man pilot"? Of course it is going to be more expensive if you have policies in place that require around the clock care of patients by a specific number of workers. They didn't even need to carry out the pilot as all they had to do was calculate the hours. It's very telling that they don't care about the positive health effects observed of workers.
- Nullabillity 10y agoOn the other hand, Sunderby Sjukhus up north seems to have had more positive results: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=98&artikel=6405641 http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=98&artik...
- throwaway7767 10y agoAnd this is why we shouldn't frame the discussion of shorter working hours in terms of economic efficiencies, because then they are easily dismissed if it turns out people don't accomplish quite as much in 6 hours as they do in 8. Shorter working hours is something we should be working towards because of the personal benefits of having more free time. And it can keep people employed a bit longer in the face of increasing automation if the jobs that do remain get spread out more.