Study Shows Sweden's Six-Hour Work Day Makes Employees 'Happier'

For the past year, nurses at a retirement home in Sweden have been working six-hour days on an eight-hour salary as part of a government-funded experiment.

And according to recent findings from the study, they've been found to be more motivated, happier in both their work and personal lives and are actually healthier.

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According to data from the project, which compared staff at Svartadalens Retirement Home with a group of staff from another retirement home, the nurses who worked shorter hours took half the amount of sick days and were almost three times less likely to take time off within a two week period.

It also found that the nurses were 20 per cent happier and had more energy in both their professional and personal lives, leading them to have the time and energy to do 64 per cent more activities with the elderly in the home.

According to Bengt Lorentzon, a researcher on the project, the study has shown a profound effect on the workers' lives and their job efficiency.

"If the nurses are at work more time and are more healthy, this means that the continuity at the residence has increased", Lorentzon told Bloomberg.

"That means higher quality care".

However before you start making plans for all the extra hours that you think may be coming your way, Carol Sladek, work-life consulting lead at Aon Hewitt LLC told the publication she believes it will be a long time before the concept is accepted worldwide.

"In many companies today, you still see that mentality that you have to be in the office," she said.

"Reducing the workday is very foreign to our overall values."

Happier, more rested and healthier worker? We're are so down for that.