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 for a Swedish experiment about the future of work. In a bid to improve well-being, employees were switched to a six-hour workday last year with no pay cut. Within a week, Mr. Perez was brimming with energy, and residents said the standard of care was higher.
“What’s good is that we’re happy,” said Mr. Perez, a single father. “And a happy worker is a better worker.”
Read more: In Sweden, an Experiment Turns Shorter Workdays Into Bigger Gains – The New York Times