{"id":215182,"date":"2025-06-01T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-by-generation-z-have-come-true"},"modified":"2025-06-01T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:21:15","slug":"iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-by-generation-z-have-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-by-generation-z-have-come-true","title":{"rendered":"Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019, nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made by Generation Z have come true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer hours. Same pay. Possible approach to the Economic Singularity?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the <a href=\"https:\/\/farmingdale-observer.com\/tag\/world\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with world\">world<\/a> to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate shorter weeks or reduced hours. Five years on, the results are indisputable.<\/p>\n<p>The Icelandic experiment began in 2015 with a pilot phase involving around 2,500 employees, or just over 1% of the country\u2019s working population. Following the resounding success of this initiative, with 86% of the employees involved expressing their support, the project was formalised in 2019. Today, almost 90% of Icelandic workers benefit from a reduced working week of 36 hours, compared with 40 hours previously, with no loss of pay.<\/p>\n<p>Initial concerns about the four-day week were widespread, both in Iceland and elsewhere in the world. There were fears of a drop in productivity, increased costs for businesses and difficulties in adapting to maintain service levels. However, the Icelandic experience has swept these fears under the carpet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer hours. Same pay. Possible approach to the Economic Singularity? In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the world to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate shorter weeks or reduced hours. Five years on, the results are indisputable. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,1496,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-law","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}