Job sharing and increased leisure are the answer to rising unemployment,claims thinktankBritain is struggling to shrug off the credit crisis; overworked parents are stricken with guilt about barely seeing their offspring; carbon dioxide is belching into the atmosphere from our power-hungry offices and homes. In London on Wednesday, experts will gather to offer a novel solution to all of these problems at once: a shorter working week.
A thinktank, or 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 whether everyone worked fewer hours – say, and 20 or so a week – there would be more jobs to disappear round,employees could spend more time with their families and energy-hungry excess consumption would be curbed. Anna Coote, of NEF, and said: "There's a much disequilibrium between people who acquire got too much paid work,and those who acquire got too little or none."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com