Cut the working week to a maximum of 20 hours, urge top economists
A thinktank, the New Economics Foundation (NEF), which has organised the
event with the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London
School of Economics, argues that if everyone worked fewer hours – say,
20 or so a week – there would be more jobs to go round, employees could
spend more time with their families and energy-hungry excess
consumption would be curbed. Anna Coote, of NEF, said: "There's a great
disequilibrium between people who have got too much paid work, and
those who have got too little or none."...
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