in Sweden in they are gonna test out something that is very
on American they want to see it working less
well actually increase productivity that's right the city government
Gothenburg Sweden
want to test the impact of shorter hours and how that affects productivity in an
experiment
that begins in about three weeks so one group government workers in the elderly
care sector are gonna work six hours a day
while another organ worked for eight hours that their custom to working
after a year the government is going to analyze the results and decide whether
the six-hour day
actually a allows people to accomplish just as much as they were doing with two
extra hours
a course proponents of cutting the work they are saying that you know people
have fewer
sick but the sick days and they'll be more efficient in general
I and be international productivity ranking by Conference Board
a non-profit business research organization sweden was already
close to the top coming out 11 61 countries in terms of productivity
and we've got more info on that Korea
so it is average work hours and international productivity ranking
okay so we can see here is that in the Netherlands they don't work at time but
they're ranked fifth in productivity pretty good
the United States we do work a lot an average of would be roughly 400 more
hours a year than they do in the Netherlands and we are predicted he's
pretty good
interestingly in Chile and in Mexico they worked her son
and their productivity is not good so there's also order
it a little all over the place but also I think you can get some
interesting stuff from it so it let's just start with the the american
components were in america here
this is a very un-american right to say oh you should work
or less and maybe that made me more because we're just taught to work
and work and work to withdraw on working hard working
Mart so I player if you're tired and you're hating life
yeah you're gonna work much more poorly so I kinda
think think we didn't have a point here yeah should we jump on this bandwagon
that's weird because I think when they do that once they get the information
back on this legacy yeah
people can work more nimbly and more swiftly
I think it it would be a great thing a people work fewer hours because we were
good time a lot alike people are independent contractors nowadays is one
there working more than 40 50 60 hours we have a lot of young
lawyers that are going crazy 100 120 hour week work weeks
I think that unacceptable but I think that if we are gonna lower the minimum
number of hours for full time work
from the a to fix we also have to make some changes so that
workers are engaged or getting the same level of productivity
we know that certain activity that work lead
to you know lead to resultant others don't so that's where we should focus
our energy making people happy are more engaged at work
so arts let's talk about happy because we never talk about that right
that that the one thing that never talked about at is
the relation between work it happened so they've done studies that show that
people that are working are generally happier because then you have money and
you can go do things and take vacations and things like that
but we don't really talk about it and so do the day-to-day basis like where
happiness is coming from people I'm sure that are working 100 hour work weeks
I know that happy right now like your family you're not sleeping enough you
know eating enough nothing a friend you know getting things done that you need
to get done that already been fun at all
yeah of course you're stressed out do you guys think that as the economy
changes and now that we can do everything online in computers and
things like that that you can accomplish
as much in three hours as maybe they used to be able to accomplish
all day long so the I so I feel like a lot of people right now
people are watching they're allowed to be watching this at work we know it. a
lot of our videos are watched during work hours
and people are at work without things to do you actually because its order the
old paradigm
a like working nine to five but actually you can accomplish all you need to do
from Mike nine to 11 this idea working to like from 925 come from like the
the times on agriculture when we had to wake up at a certain time
and then there was light and so we used up all the valuable light time and then
we went to bed after the sunset or whatever
so it makes no sense to apply to like today is
society where we have artificial light where we have the Internet where we can
communicate globally
I think that what's happening though is that because we have all these
technological advances
would want people to do more and yeah bother they expect more out of us like
now like
I know and so many my friends tell me my boss sent me an email at three o'clock
in the morning
an expected to respond to light up Buckingham output is inevitable that you
get emails about our don't you
records I see it all the time I get emails I we got my check mail it in the
morning like
head out any other 10 or on the weekends and get the expected response them like
fuck this like this is not OK
yet so is that the huge drawback to the technology because now they're saying
how
in how people don't even stop working when they're on vacation now because
everyone has
and iPhone and you can literally yeah on the beach you're like oh shit
you know I bad yeah I love them
people like from work like a for
I different date now or
no but yeah I can definitely see this a
I feel like most of the work day is spent you know hurry up and wait for
wasting time running out the clock
ever need to be that way we can enjoy our lives shockingly enough and we can
enjoy our work
also talking we know yet so it's sweet in which already as we said they
they don't work as much as us and they are more productive if they find this to
be true and really push this idea all over the country
do you think they're gonna have an immigration problem I'm pretty sure
pretty sure they don't have the easiest
the immigration policies in the first place but really you think this will be
the place we would be like you know what they're doing something right here
different though to know they're very much focused on education much more than
you know the US is and also how fear they have a better educational system
they have about
better health systems I think those two things also highly contribute to their
productivity
not just about the hours the fact that they have a society where
even if they're working fewer hours or so working great there you go