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2 Papers on the reduction of working hours

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A Four-day Workweek: A Policy for Improving Employment and Environmental Conditions in Europe Can working less lead to a healthier economy and better environmental conditions? Which factors should be taken into consideration when forming an answer to this question? In this article Nicholas Ashford and Giorgos Kallis discuss how affluent economies often have shorter work-weeks and why, under the … Read more

In Sweden, An Experiment Turns Shorter Workdays Into Bigger Gains

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Submitted by Maurie Cohen GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Arturo Perez used to come home frazzled from his job as a caregiver at the Svartedalens nursing home. Eight-hour stretches of tending to residents with senility or Alzheimer’s would leave him sapped with little time to spend with his three children. But life changed when Svartedalens was selected … Read more