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Have there been largeish tests of company wide four-day work weeks in the software sector? Here in Sweden the movement has mostly been push by the left, and fo
by filleokus 7y ago
Have there been largeish tests of company wide four-day work weeks in the software sector?
Here in Sweden the movement has mostly been push by the left, and for workers with lower wage/burnout/high amounts of sick leave etc. I think it's mostly been tested in the health care sector. I think it lowered the amount of sick leave, but was too expensive to keep since those type of jobs are very hard to make more productive. I.e, we always need nurses on staff at the ER, or to look after the elderly.
Most office-type work seems that it could potentially benefit from this though.
- Swizec 7y agoI don't know about largeish tests, but 37signals is famous for their 4-day workweeks during summer. https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-only-work-4-days-a-week-during-summer/ https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-only-work-4-days-a-week-du...
- thatfrenchguy 7y agoThat article makes it sound like they don’t go on vacation in exchange, which is a bad deal. Americans already take pity time off.
- astrobe_ 7y agoFrance has 35 hours work weeks, so that's four days and half with 8 hours a day [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek