The city government in Gothenburg, Sweden is planning to test the impact of working shorter hours on productivity, in an experiment beginning on July 1.

I reduced my consulting hours from five days a week to four days a week two years ago. Funnily enough, most parameters dropped around 20%…

Actually, not quite 20%. But then we are deliberately making my working easier. I’m not as young as I used to be.

That’d be awsome.

After getting my gear together, driving to site and having smoko, I could get back in the ute, drive back to the office and knock off. Not forgetting to ad half an hour to my timesheet for my missed lunch.

I’ve been testing a two-hour workday for several years now.

Don’t tell my boss.

For the last 5 months I’ve managed to keep it down to less than an hour.

As I work for myself it apparently isn’t that good a deal.

bloody leaners!!!

At the time I left CSIRO it was trying out a policy of employing people for 8 hours but only paying them for 6, or sometimes less.

In the 1990s, the French tried a 35 hour work week, with limitations of 218 working days per year.