{"id":11739,"date":"2021-07-07T02:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T06:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2021-07-07T02:55:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T06:55:28","slug":"spain-is-the-latest-country-to-try-a-four-day-workweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=11739","title":{"rendered":"Spain Is The Latest Country To Try A Four-Day Workweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain has announced that it will experiment with a trial four-day workweek. The Spanish government agreed to a 32-hour workweek over three years, without cutting workers\u2019 compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jackkelly\/2021\/03\/15\/spain-is-the-latest-country-to-try-a-four-day-workweek\/\">Spain Is The Latest Country To Try A Four-Day Workweek<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Finally some mention of a 32-hour week!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been tried before. Sanna Marin, a Finnish politician who has been the prime minister of Finland since December 2019, previously promoted shortening the amount of time people work. Marin put forth the idea of companies adopting a\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.neweurope.eu\/article\/finnish-pm-marin-calls-for-4-day-week-and-6-hours-working-day-in-the-country\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neweurope.eu\/article\/finnish-pm-marin-calls-for-4-day-week-and-6-hours-working-day-in-the-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.neweurope.eu\/article\/finnish-pm-marin-calls-for-4-day-week-and-6-hours-working-day-in-the-country\" aria-label=\"flexible six-hour day and a four-day workweek\">flexible six-hour day and a four-day workweek<\/a>\u00a0at a panel discussion before she became prime minister. Marin said, \u201cI believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain has announced that it will experiment with a trial four-day workweek&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[703,625,18,140],"class_list":["post-11739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-4-day-work-week","tag-covid-19-over","tag-economics","tag-paul","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}