Sweden reveals results from pilot of 30-hour work week

Re:Sweden reveals results from pilot of 30-hour work week by saverio-murgia on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:21PM (#13323086)

Here on HN I always read people saying that you are more productive working 5 to 6 hours a day instead of 8. According to the people claiming that, the people who got a 25% cut in working hours should have performed better thus accomplishing the same amount of work. That obviously did not happen.

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Re:Sweden reveals results from pilot of 30-hour work week by herrkanin on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:27PM (#13323136)

I think it's different with physically intensive jobs, such as nurses in the trial, and mentally intensive jobs, such as programming etc. The latter may very well end up being equally or more productive, while physically intensive jobs probably would end up with reduced productivity.

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Re:Sweden reveals results from pilot of 30-hour work week by benchaney on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:36PM (#13323204)

Well as another commenter pointed out, they had to hire fewer people than a naive man hours calculation would suggest, so their productivity did increase.

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