One year ago, a Swedish business implemented a six-hour work day. Now, the results from the experiment are in.
Sixty-eight nurses participated in the six-hour work day trial at the Svartedalens retirement home in Gothenburg, Sweden for one year.
The project found that these nurses were 20 percent happier, took half as much sick time, and had more energy at work and in their spare time. The shorter days enabled the nurses to do 64 percent more activities with elderly residents.
Bengt Lorentzon, a researcher on the project, told Bloomberg that these nurses were 2.8 times less likely to take any time off in a two-week period.
