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Studies Prove it’s Time For a Four Day Work Week.
Results from Iceland are in, and they’re incredible.
With Americans being forced to spend more and more of their time working for astoundingly inadequate pay, it’s easy to see how the idea of a four day work week might feel like a pipe dream. With millions forced to work two or three jobs just to survive, the idea of having an extra day off to spend focusing on themselves and their friends and families instinctively come with dismissive, if only thoughts. But research seems to indicate that it might not be such a pipe dream after all.
Inside Edition reported on trials conducted by ALDA (Association for Sustainability and Democracy) out of Iceland regarding the 4 day work week. Iceland’s study focused on roughly 1% of Iceland’s workforce who worked in environments ranging from hospitals to play schools, with some working typical nine to five jobs and others more non traditional. From 2015 to 2019, they worked few hours for the same pay, cutting their hours back from 40 to 35 or 36. The study of course hoped to not only improve work life balance, but maintain or increase productivity. The results were lauded as such an “overwhelming success” that they’re now being considered the blue print for future trials in other countries.
