Swedes to give six-hour workday a go
Source: thelocal.se
"We think it's time to give this a real shot in Sweden," Mats Pilhem, Left Party deputy mayor of Gothenburg, told The Local.
He explained that the municipal council would use two different departments - a test group and a control group, in essence. Staff in one section will cut down to six-hour days, while their colleagues in a different section stick to the ordinary seven-hour day. All employees will be given the same pay.
"We'll compare the two afterwards and see how they differ. We hope to get the staff members taking fewer sick days and feeling better mentally and physically after they've worked shorter days," he said.
Pilhelm said he hoped the move would create more jobs, as he had seen evidence that longer shifts entailed less efficiency. In some sectors, such as elderly care, the problem was not staff shortages, he claimed, but people working inefficiently over longer shifts.
Read more: http://www.thelocal.se/20140408/swedish-workers-to-test-six-hour-work-days
7 hour work day is the norm.
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Have they tried "Trickle Down?" 
...just asking.
Game companies are notorious for white collar slavery. It's a common thing to work 60 hour weeks and if you don't your frowned upon, says the burnt out 3d artist. All for that glorious 40 hour per week paycheck and a credit in the game. What's that you say, the company surely shares the profits when they have big blockbusters, *sigh*, no.
I love what I do, I hate the companies that I work for.
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Of course it doesn't pay anything until the end, but at least you get to keep the profits! 
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To put out an independent game. We keep the cash we make, not some CEO. FFS.
I hear the GOP need a few good men.
your ignorance is showing!
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They treat their staff much better than their US counterparts. The ads between the 2 countries for staffing are like night and day.
USA, USA, USA, we know how to hit the bottom line!
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next month I'll be working twelve consecutive 12 hours 
I used to do 12 hour days for almost a year so I get where you're coming from. Just focus in that sweet, sweet overtime!
while living in an apartment 
Overnights in a warehouse loading 5000+ boxes by hand for minimum wage. No AC in the summer and the winter so cold the boxes stick to the ground.
All followed by a lovely hour and a half drive back home. During winter driving through the ghetto wasn't so bad because at least the streets were more plowed than the forest preserve.
And I still had to get up for school.
Glad those days are over. Just keep looking for the next job and it will fall in your lap sooner than you expect. 
try being on conference calls with offshore folk for hours on end 
Try being mortared in the desert several times per day for months on end while being on conference calls with suits who have no idea what you actually need to get the job done.
