The Moral Case for Working Less

“There’s something to Epperson’s insight that less work can yield better work. From 2015 to 2019, Iceland conducted two large-scale four-day-workweek trials. Combined, they reduced the workweek from 40 hours to 36 or 35 for more than 1 percent of the nation’s workforce without cutting pay. The workers came from a wide range of industries and included teachers, police officers, construction workers, and employees in the Reykjavík mayor’s office.”

Working less, overall, is better for us as people. Productivity is an obsession in our culture so it's hilarious to me that the way to be more productive is to work less.