This weekend’s discussion relates to vocation. Are we working too much? Some experts are arguing that productivity could be increased if workers were not spending so much time on the job. Or that we don’t need to be as productive as we are, that less work will make for healthier and happier life.
Some companies and some countries are experimenting with a shorter workweek. Sometimes this means keeping the 40-hours-per-week standard, but cramming them into just four ten-hour workdays. That way, every week has a long weekend, the theory being that workers will come back to work better rested and refreshed. Other reformers want to cut back the hours employees work, to, for example, 35 hours. Some are proposing a six hour workday.
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