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Does anyone have a better source? This seems to be blogspam based on a (linked) Spanish article that seems to be a partial translation of a Guardian opinion piece but I’m hoping there’s a real paper or findings somewhere?

Edit: this seems to be the study that various articles are based on https://autonomy.work/portfolio/on-firmer-ground-icelands-on...

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Here, much better than this LLM-written blog spam:

https://autonomy.work/portfolio/on-firmer-ground-icelands-on...

I wish all news was written like this.

Like what? Bland and lacking in substance?

Highly factual.

If this is what satisfies your definition of high factuality, I don't know what to tell you.

No, no. Please, do speak up!

I'm very curious to hear how a summary of a survey done by a university for a government contract, with most of the text being figures, is not highly factual.

The mental gymnastics will be incredible. Surely such entertainment is worth something.

Apologies, I think I found it at about the same time as you and updated my comment before I’d seen yours!

Thanks for that. This study is much more nuanced and does not really concur with the conclusions from the article at all. The article says:

    Today, almost 90% of Icelandic workers benefit from a reduced working week of 36 hours

while the study says:

    The offer of shorter hours has been widespread. In the two years prior to being surveyed, more than half (59%) of workers were offered reduced working hours.

Or am I missing something?

I don't think you're missing anything. It was interesting to me that there didn't seem to be any measured outcomes other than "how was this rolled out?" and "how do workers feel about it?"

Agreed. It's difficult to take the article seriously when the text is interspersed with links to other articles, such as “Close the Toilet Lid Now! This Is What Actually Happens When You Flush the Toilet”.

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