No, Finland is not adopting a 4-day week just yet
In the last few days I read several articles (like this one in Quartz, this one in the Daily Mail, and this one in the Guardian) proclaiming that
New Finnish PM talks about 4-day weeks
Finland's transport minister, Sanna Marin, has become the country's newest prime minister. In addition to being (at 34) one of the youngest world leaders, she's also been talking
Estonia tries lost time as a fine for speeding
My house is on the edge of a major freeway exit and street that is regularly clogged with traffic in the mornings. (I'm in Silicon Valley, a couple
Paddy Bettington on the political radicalism of shorter working hours
In the companies I've been studying that have moved to 4-day weeks, unions have played little or no role in setting working hour or working conditions. But unions
Marx on “What is a working-day?”
Oxford, 2008 From Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1: “What is a working-day? What is the length of time during which capital may consume the labour-power whose daily value
Now U.S. labor unions are talking about a 4-day week
Unions in the UK have been talking about the 4-day week for some time, and now American unions are starting to take notice, Alexia Fernández Campbell reports in
“there is much to be said for Mr Pang’s conclusion that the belief in the power of the 80-hour week is piffle.”
Financial Times editor and columnist Pilita Clark has a piece that puts REST against the workaholic pose of the current government: Brexit, one of the most important events
Washington Post on the 4-day week in America
Jeff Stein at the Washington Post has a piece about the 4-day week and the lack of interest in it among American progressives and unions: In Europe, signs
Planet Money on “Japan’s Worker Shortage” and working hours
NPR’s Planet Money has a piece on efforts in Japan to allow people to work less: Some companies in Japan are going bankrupt because of the country's critical
Shortening working hours and unintended consequences:
Koreans have had some of the longest working hours in the developed world: longer than the workaholic United States, Europe, and even Japan (which is often Korea's benchmark