Going Public: Iceland's Journey to a Shorter Working Week
Guðmundur Haraldsson and Jack Kellam describe two large trials of a shorter working week in Iceland between 2015 and 2019, with no reduction in pay. The report says productivity and service provision stayed the same or improved across most trial workplaces, and that the trials have been followed by wide adoption of shorter hours in the country's workforce. The report is published by the think tank Autonomy with Alda, and gives its productivity finding in qualitative terms.
Guðmundur Haraldsson and Jack Kellam describe two large trials of a shorter working week in Iceland between 2015 and 2019, with no reduction in pay. The report says productivity and service provision stayed the same or improved across most trial workplaces, and that the trials have been followed by wide adoption of shorter hours in the country's workforce. The report is published by the think tank Autonomy with Alda, and gives its productivity finding in qualitative terms.
Written from the report page read 2026-10-27 on the Autonomy website.
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Autonomy and Alda. https://autonomy.work/portfolio/icelandsww/