Six hours workday, a path towards both health and efficiency?

During 2018 and 2019 Östersundshem carried out an organizational change in order to counteract poor health, through reduction of working time to six hours.

We got a commission from Östersundhem to do a follow up study of the project that took place for 18 months, by the means of a questionnaire distributed before, in the middle of, and in the end of the project. We investigated effects on subjective health, demands and control, work life balance, as well as the sense of efficiency and company attractiveness.

The results have been communicated in a report (in Swedish):

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