I'm surprised this is news. Here in europe you can work 32 hours if you wanted to, but you make 20% less money. Would you work one day less for 20% of your base

I'm surprised this is news. Here in europe you can work 32 hours if you wanted to, but you make 20% less money. Would you work one day less for 20% of your base salary? In terms of reward, this is like a 25% raise. Imagine getting a raise of 25%. I'm interested how much the raises the past ten years were. Is this a big thing, or is this an overdue raise for the past ten years. Will they compensate the lost labor with new hires? If not, you could also see it as Unilever firing 20% of its workforce, and it could indicate something has gone wrong with their business (I know, corona is probably the cause, but what if it is something else). Initiatives to work smarter sound promotional. It sure sounds better than 'our sales people have nothing to do during corona'. Overall, I would be happy to have more free time.