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    20 hours ago

    How does a 36-hour workweek work out to a four-day workweek?

    Here in Norway everyone in sneezing distance of a union deal has a five-day workweek at 7.5 hours a day, for 37.5 hours in total. (The law says six days at 8 hours; the half-hour difference is in practice lunch, which is your own time with a union deal and the boss’ time without. I think we could go down to 7h a day and get an hour of lunch like our neighbours.)

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      20 hours ago

      9 x 4 = 36

      IANI (I am not Icelandic) but that’s my guess based on currently-accepted mathematical models.

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        Yeah, but there’s also no way anyone in the Nordics would be fine with a nine-hour workday. There’s something clearly wrong here.

        I’d rather guess that they’re working a five-day workweek but have cut the hours per day from 8 to 7.2, or 8 hours Mon-Thu and 4 hours on Friday or the like. The article just comes off as weird.

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          19 hours ago

          That’d be a 5-day workweek. Sorry you can’t imagine someone only wanting to work 4 days a week, even if it means they have to work a little longer, it seems inexorably reasonable to me 🤷‍♂️

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            18 hours ago

            I think it’s far more likely that the article that doesn’t know what “sweep under the rug” means also got other stuff wrong.

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        There’s nothing probable about the combination of a Nordic country and a 9-hour workday.