Former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has called for a more flexible work schedule, consisting of a four-day workweek of six hours per day. Marin said that a flexible work schedule would give employees more time to spend with their families. Currently in Finland,...

“I believe that people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life,” the prime minister commented on the new proposal.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    1-size NEVER fits all:

    Neither legislating a 60h workweek, nor a 40h workweek, nor a 6d workweek, nor a 4d workweek, CAN fit all diverse kinds of people.

    Some are unhappy when NOT working all the time!

    Many autistic workaholics would need2 jobs, to be happy in her idea of good, but it wouldn’t ever work right ( 8d work every 7d week??

    There NEEDS to be some way for there to be 2 categories of employees: workaholics & humans,

    & the measured higher social-support ( including late-life health-care ) amplification for the workaholics obliges a higher tax-rate for companies employing those, in proportion with the percentage of 'em working that way.

    ( I’d be in the workaholics category, not in the “family” category, just so you understand I’m deeming my own category to be more-costly to social-support systems.

    But the Industrial Revolution was on us, not on the family-people.

    We are the blockheads who keep bashing-away at making technology work right, see? )

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