"Interestingly, Iceland remains in a very different economic situation from many of its nearby countries in the OECD rankings on work-life balance." (Page 13)

"Interestingly, Iceland remains in a very different economic situation from many of its nearby countries in the OECD rankings on work-life balance." (Page 13) It does seem like Iceland and this study are in some significant ways different than many other places. I would suspect cutting hours and/or days worked in a week would have the same results just about anywhere with the same types of jobs though. Or at least I'd like to believe that it would. I know most of the places I've worked wouldn't see much of a drop if people only went in 4 days a week, or spent less time there every day. That being said, I can't imagine managers and C level people being willing to even try this in very many places, at least in the US.