Reduced Work Hourss

Everyone needs a day off every so often to catch up on administrative work, work on the side tasks of every day life, or take a few moments to breathe and take everything that is going on in life in. There are many potential solutions to ensuring that everyone is receiving this much needed time off from work, but the most plausible of these solutions is shortening the standard workday of eight hours to six hours. Not only have there been multiple studies proving that less working increases productivity that makes up for the loss in time, but employee physical health improves as well. Most recently, countries such as France and Sweden have instituted a thirty-five hour or less workweek and have seen extremely beneficial results. Thus, decreasing the time spent at work daily would not only benefit the employee, but also the employer due to increased productivity and happier, healthier workers. There is next to no debate on whether or not decreasing the workday to six hours would benefit individual employees. The problem lies in how it would affect companies and, in turn, the economy, especially for positions that always need to …show more content…
The observed increase in job satisfaction and the influence on work space, the improved sleep quality, and the additional time spent with friends and children may be protective side effects of intervention through this mechanism. Reduced work hours may also protect against muscular pain by providing better opportunities for recovery and exercise” (Wergeland et al).
Every minute matters and contributes to employee health. Additionally, when all employees are seeing the same benefits of improved sleep quality, increased job satisfaction, and better health, the work environment will become a more pleasant place to be. A happier overall work environment would contribute twofold to increasing employee job satisfaction and overall