Four-day working week is set to be trialed in Spain
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Would you work harder in a four-day week? Better productivity and work-life balance are the hopes from Spain’s planned trial.
But Miguel Soldan, law professor at Madrid’s IE Business School, said the problems in Spain's employment sector wouldn't be solved by a move to a shorter working week.
"To think that this is a solution for a country like Spain that is still working with a decades old structure and has huge structural unemployment is naive," he said.
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