Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day
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Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day
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Re: Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day
#2it's like adding fuel to the fire to their immigration crisis...
Re: Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day
#3it's like adding fuel to the fire to their immigration crisis...
Please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents.
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#4it's like adding fuel to the fire to their immigration crisis...
Please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not flame it's truth. Europe is different from the US.
You can't simply integrate thousands of somalis with no education and skills and give them much more money and benefits compared to standards of livings in central europe.
That screams one thing: WAR
Re: Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day
#5Can't wait till this happens in North America. I hope we realize shorter work days and basic income in the next couple of decades. Then we will truly have a golden age.
Re: Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day
#6This hasn't been in the news in Sweden a lot, there is nothing "official" going on and I doubt that a fraction of a percent of those with a 40h week today will have anything else in a year or two. The headline (both in the source and here) should read "a couple of companies and public employers in Sweden are testing a 6-hour work day".
Nothing to see here.
Re: Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day
#7As a swede I think the title is highly misleading. Sweden is not shifting to a 6-hour workday. Sure there are a few experiments but the baseline is that sweden (which has a huge public sector) cannot afford it without raising taxes further.
The current forecasts for the future indicates that taxes has to be raised a lot just to maintain the current standard. I would be very surprised if the 6 hour workday would be prominent here in the future.
Re: Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day
#8Can't wait till this happens in North America. I hope we realize shorter work days and basic income in the next couple of decades. Then we will truly have a golden age.
I fully expect the US to be the very last to switch.
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#9Can't wait till this happens in North America. I hope we realize shorter work days and basic income in the next couple of decades. Then we will truly have a golden age.
A golden age of after-work creative and productive output? If you don't have the passion to create something meaningful with X amount of free-time, what will X+1 do for you?
Re: Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day
#10As a swede I think the title is highly misleading. Sweden is not shifting to a 6-hour workday. Sure there are a few experiments but the baseline is that sweden (which has a huge public sector) cannot afford it without raising taxes further. The current forecasts for the future indicates that taxes has to be raised a lot just to maintain the current standard. I would be very surprised if the 6 hour workday would be pr…
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