It's a recurring question: why not generalize a 6-hour working day in order to optimize production and fight unemployment? This is the unions’ message, and businesses from various sectors have been trying it out in Norway and Sweden, with satisfactory results.
A cure-all solution? Reflecting on the issue of working time has recently come back to the fore because overtime hours represent an enormous potential for work and transforming them into regular employment hours could reverse the unemployment trend. In any case this idea has received support from results of a study carried out in 2015 by the Swedish TCO (employees) union, which found that the number of overtime hours worked was the equivalent of 117,000 full time jobs. “Many hours worked...
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