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Monday, February 15, 2010

Total Madness: 'Cut Working Week to 21 hours', Urges Think Tank

The working week should be cut to 21 hours to help boost the economy and improve quality of life, a left-wing think tank has said.

The New Economics Foundation claimed in a report the reduction in hours would help to ease unemployment and overwork.

The think tank said people were working longer hours now than 30 years ago even though unemployment was at 2.5 million.

The foundation admitted people would earn less, but said they would have more time to carry out worthy tasks.

They would have better scope to look after children or other dependants, there would be more opportunity for civic duties, and older people could even delay retirement, it said.'

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2 comments:

  1. why is this madness? its got to be better that what we face at the moment.

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  2. Never mind 21 hours is there any space in the report about ending imigration in this tank of goldfish baloney thinking?

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