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A city council in Sweden is set to cut the number of hours its staff members work down to just six – while keeping them on full pay.
The council’s ruling coalition of left-wing Social Democrat and Green parties has proposed reducing one department to 30-hour working weeks while keeping another unchanged as a control.
One of the departments that has been put forward for the scheme is elderly care, Sweden’s Metro newspaper reported. They would be kept on the same pay as the “control” department and, after a year, their performance would be assessed by researchers.
“We'll compare the two afterwards and see how they differ. We hope to get the staff members taking fewer sick days and feeling better mentally and physically after they've worked shorter days,” Mr Pilhem said.
Experiments involving the six-hour workday have taken place in various countries around the world before. They are based on the theory that after this period of time employees become too tired anyway, reducing both short-term and long-term productivity.
xuenchen
Hmmm.
Same pay for less hours ?
Increased workload to get 8 crammed into 6 ?
The story did not mention this.
I'm sure they have good intentions.
Some companies have a one hour (paid) break 1/2 way through 8 hours with success.
Short breaks in between.
But the one's in control here now is (Moderaterna)
They are exactly as Obama. They only care for the rich
and treat the poor like s***.
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A city council in Sweden is set to cut the number of hours its staff members work down to just six – while keeping them on full pay.
xuenchen
Hmmm.
Same pay for less hours ?
Increased workload to get 8 crammed into 6 ?
The story did not mention this.
I'm sure they have good intentions.
Some companies have a one hour (paid) break 1/2 way through 8 hours with success.
Short breaks in between.
xuenchen
Hmmm.
Same pay for less hours ?
Increased workload to get 8 crammed into 6 ?
The story did not mention this.
I'm sure they have good intentions.
Some companies have a one hour (paid) break 1/2 way through 8 hours with success.
Short breaks in between.
I didn't. That's why I asked the question ???
Where did you find information about increased workload? Or you just meant, 8 hours crammed into 6?
Yes, just some. Some others make you "clock out" (unpaid lunch maybe 1/2 hour) and maybe two 10 or 15 minute paid breaks. Depends on the employer, the type of job, or what the union contract (if any) says. Lots of variables and lots of State laws that are different.
Just some companies? Here pretty much every company gives a paid lunch break, I do not know whether they are legally obliged or not, but I have yet to find a company who does not do this. Requiring someone to work for 8 hours without lunch break,at least for me, seems as torture.