Re:Sweden reveals results from pilot of 30-hour work week
by failrate on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @01:00PM
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My interpretation is that the cost could be calculated beforehand but not the benefit. If the outcome was a dramatically improved care and well-being of patients that saw much shorter hospital stays OR an unanticipated reduction in the need for staff as a knock on effect of shorter workdays, then the benefit might have been considered worth the cost.
Re:Sweden reveals results from pilot of 30-hour work week
by bogomipz on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:04PM
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I see. That certainly makes much more sense. Thanks.
Re:Sweden reveals results from pilot of 30-hour work week
by hjnilsson on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:35PM
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The experiment was to find any positive benefits. If you look at it from that perspective (as a research project) it makes much more sense. Before we could guess what benefits would result, but now we know.
"Preliminary results concluded that it achieved all of these aims, but the city had to employ an extra 17 staff, costing 12m kroner (£1.4m), Bloomberg reported."
Am I missing something because that seems painfully obvious without even having to to undertake the experiment no?
That being said I absolutely love that the Swedish government was willing to entertain such an idea and undertake such an experiment.