I think Sweden would be a better bet. They've had bigger trials and Finland's current right wing crony capitalist government would rather see 6 day work weeks with 12 hour shifts to please their corporate overlords.

24h 4 day work week sounds very, very enticing but snow is my biggest opp here

The idea floated in august 2019 when Sanna Marin was Minister for Transport and Communications (she did a tweet about that). Since then, it has not been introduced officially to the government agenda. (Source : Reuters)

My first thought as well. So often we see ex leader spouting this type of thing after the fact. But during their time, they toed the party line to keep the working class down.

No.

40 hours a week isn't some magic number that we have to adhere to. We should be working less.

So is a 4 day work week with 8 hours per working day.

I honestly think a lot of hours we spend working are spent "working." I know my, and my colleagues, 40 hour weeks certainly are less than 40 hours but I also don't get paid enough so I think it's a fair trade off.

I do get my shit done though and work late if I have to so it isn't like I'm screwing anyone.

Seriously though I think we need to accept that we just don't need the standard to be 40 hours of labor as the expected time. We arrived at it artificially and can just as easily walk away from that and into a brighter future with less work and more time with our family and friends. I'm sure we would even see productivity gains as folks are happier and healthier.

That’s equally valid of course, but unless you mean your birth family and not your own, the more appropriate and commendable route would be to remove yourself from the wrong family situation and figure out a new, working, one. It’s no benefit to anyone, least to yourself, if it’s not working out. Everyone will be happier for it ultimately, even if it requires some tough choices and a whole bunch of compromises, adaptation and potential heartbreak in the short term.

I mean the same is true for birth family too, but at least there it doesn’t matter as much, since often the first priority and the more day-to-day impactful one will be your own immediate family, so you can simply minimize the need to ever interact with them.

And there’s the moral implication, that you didn’t choose your birth family. But you did choose your own immediate family. So there’s a responsibility there in the latter that isn’t present in the former.

Unless the situation is that you didn’t choose your immediate family either. If it’s not working out, it’s even more of a reason to figure out a way out.

Unless there’s no way out. In which case, and only in this case, your sentiment seems agreeable and hopefully the situation doesn’t last. And if it does, hopefully you get as much time off as possible.

Oh you!

She leads a coalition, so she could be reelected.

Late-stage capitalism yay! /s

I rather have 6 hour shifts and put in 24 hours a workweek to be considered full time. With a bigger check than what I was getting working 40 hours, 5 days a week, of course.

If current pm said it, I'd be worried I had a stroke.