Finland Is Considering 4-Day Workweeks With 6-Hour Workdays That Would Allow People To Spend More Time With Their Loved Ones

Btw, these Scandi countries WORK. They have the best welfare services, best education, best gender equality. Yes they pay a lot of taxes: I'd be very happy to pay a lot of taxes and have excellent services in return. Also, Danish seem to be one of the happiest people in the world. No wonder, actually.

NO WE ARE NOT. Something weird happened in the UK press and this became news. It's an idea that's brought up every now and then but it is not happening anytime soon.

Considering the astonishing advancements in artificial intelligence and the fact that less and less work will have to be done by humans/will be available for humans in the near future, this is a very wise decision.

It's either a 6 hour work day or a four day work week, not both combined. A lot of media outlets are misreporting it

It's a nice idea, but how does this work?? I need more information on this. Is this just minimum wage type jobs? What about the money people would be making in these cut hours?

I need to move to Finland !

I would have had no trouble performing forty hours of work in twenty four hours, but most of my coworkers were pretty challenged with the forty. Then what about retail? Would stores need twice as many employees? Are people paid by the hour supposed to be paid more per hour? Or will they simply earn less? I don't think this plan has been thought through.

More time to spend with dear ones she says? Well how about returning the astronomic number of children unnecessarily removed from good caring families and detained in 'care' facilities across Finland back to their dear ones first?

Well, a Finn here. I don't think anyone is actually considering it. It was something she mentioned, an option that could be something that might work. It wont happen.

High production and high consumption have been chanted as a mantra in the modern world driven by Western culture/civilization, which has been exploiting/conquering nature and indigenous people all over the globe, and has been spreading like cancer cells by making so many humans addicted to it. But alas, even the almighty Western civilization doesn’t have the slightest chance to beat the challenges posed by sustainability. So, we now have to play a new game with new rules. What Finland is considering fits well with this new game. Yes, Finland can be a game-changer!

I worked for an office that adopted the German NO MORE FUN model. It was actually very fun. No birthday parties, no long lunches, no office supply shopping trips, no "personalized" cubicles. Come to work and WORK, then at 5pm, go home without taking work, getting calls-texts-emails. No overtime on weekends, either.

Really appreciate Sanna Marin for this decision and the way her thoughts about peoples and care about their families is really appreciate her for this kind words towards their citizens they really happy to have Sanna Marin a person who care about humanity not business love from indian artist to Sanna Marin keep doing great work for peoples with positive humanity nature stay blessed always.

I want to move to Finland!

This is false! Finnish person here. Check the facts!

Good for some people, not good for others, divorce rates will probably skyrocket :P

Fake news. Unfortunately. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/finland-four-day-week-sanna-marin-prime-minister-truth-fake-news-a9273971.html

I was just thinking the other day, work weeks should only be 4 days a week. it's so hard on children, it's heart breaking for them to be away from their parents so much. I remember how much my heart ached having my dad gone to work all the time :/ Canada you are supposed to be awesome should totally adopt this!

We could learn so much from them, but no, we elect the enemy of all things good to our highest office, and to the majority in the Senate. God help us correct this. So much permanent damage has been done it is horrifying, but we must never give up the fight to make our world a better place.

It might work in the short run but it will kill the economy in the long run. It is not sustainable.

I think I'll work. 5 days with wife and kids sounds way harder than going to my job. :-)

Isn't France going from a 35 hr workweek back to a 40, after trying this? Do we know why, if it's been tried?

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Japan is Japan. You cannot compare them to lazy a*s Europeans.