Shorter Workweeks Are Back in the Spotlight.

Specifically, Going Public: Iceland's Journey to a Shorter Working Week indicates that European workers have become increasingly vocal in recent years about their desire for an abbreviated workweek with the same pay - often framed as a four-day week. Trends ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE Fed up with 100-hour-plus workweeks in the 19th century, labor rights organizations popularized the slogan "Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what you will" to energize their fight for a shorter workweek. They add that the common denominator of a shorter workweek "is that you're not cramming your previous work span into a shorter timeframe, like working 40 hours in four days; you are removing a portion of your total work time for the week.". [Extracted from the article]