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Iceland’s 4-day workweek deemed an ‘overwhelming success’ after trial

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Iceland, where a shortened workweek led to better outcomes for workers and employers alike, according to new study results.The trial involved trimming people’s work hours without trimming their pay, in order to see how it would affect their health, happiness and productivity.Iceland rolled out the trial to 2,500 workers across a variety of industries from 2015 to 2019, as part of an experiment run by the U.K.-based think tank Autonomy and Iceland’s Association for Sustainable Democracy (Alda).

The test group amounts to roughly one per cent of the tiny island nation’s population. Flying car completes 35-minute test flight between cities in Slovakia Many employers cut their workweek from 40 hours to 35 or 36, Alda said.

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