Swedish retirement home may seem an

Swedish retirement home may seem an unlikely setting for an experiment about the future of work, but a small group of elderly-care nurses in Sweden have made radical changes to their daily lives in an effort to improve quality and efficiency.

In February the nurses switched from an eight-hour to a six-hour working day for the same wage – the first controlled trial of shorter hours since a rightward political shift in Sweden a decade ago snuffed out earlier efforts to explore alternatives to the traditional working week.


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“I used to be exhausted all the time, I would come home from work and pass out on the sofa,” says Lise-Lotte Pettersson, 41, an assistant nurse at Svartedalens care home in Gothenburg. “But not now. I am much more alert: I have much more energy for my work, and also for family life.”

The Svartedalens experiment is inspiring others around Sweden: at Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska University hospital, orthopaedic surgery has moved to a six-hour day, as have doctors and nurses in two hospital departments in Umeå to the north. And the trend is not confined to the public sector: small businesses claim that a shorter day can increase productivity while reducing staff turnover.

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Swedish retirement home may seem an unlikely setting for an experiment about the future of work but a, small group of elderly-care. Nurses in Sweden have made radical changes to their daily lives in an effort to improve quality and efficiency.

.In February the nurses switched from an eight-hour to a six-hour working day for the same wage - the first controlled trial. Of shorter hours since a rightward political shift in Sweden a decade ago snuffed out earlier efforts to explore alternatives. To the traditional working week.


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."I used to be exhausted all, the time I would come home from work and pass out on the sofa," says Lise-Lotte Pettersson 41 An,,, Assistant nurse at Svartedalens care home in Gothenburg. "But not now. I am much more alert: I have much more energy for. My work and also, for family life. "

The Svartedalens experiment is inspiring others around Sweden:At Gothenburg 's Sahlgrenska University hospital orthopaedic surgery, has moved to a six-hour day as have, doctors and nurses. In two hospital departments in Ume å to the north. And the trend is not confined to the public sector: small businesses claim. That a shorter day can increase productivity while reducing staff turnover.