Iceland, 4-day full-pay week: “An extraordinary productivity success”

An “overwhelming success”. So some researchers dubbed the test results of a four-day work week in Iceland, in which employees were paid the same amount for shorter hours. The tests have led unions to renegotiate work patterns, and now 86% of the Icelandic workforce has switched to shorter hours for the same pay, or will be entitled to it, researchers from the British think tank Autonomy and Dell said. ‘Association for Sustainable Democracy (Alda) in Iceland.