Some former threads in HN: 2014-06-03 Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday (washingtonpost.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7838459 https://news.ycombin

Some former threads in HN: 2014-06-03 Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday (washingtonpost.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7838459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7838459 2014-07-14 Sweden's Six-Hour Workday Experiment Officially Kicks Off Tomorrow (entrepreneur.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8029162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8029162 2015-10-01 Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day (fastcoexist.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10306635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10306635 2016-04-22 Gothenburg's six-hour work day experiment hangs in the balance (thelocal.se) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543538 All in all, the HN posts were not that bad, but in social media - Facebook and Twitter - I saw plenty of overly optimistic, baseless junk spouting the magnificence of how Sweden just went to 6-hour workweek for the nation and productivity gains were so huge. It was actually depressing... Well, obviously people are happier if they work a shorter day and get the same salary, and the productivity per hour may actually increase somewhat. But it won't reach the productivity of 8 (or 7.5) hours.