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00:00It says that it helps people be happier, it helps their well-being, it's better for their work-life balance,
00:07and it's expected to improve productivity and reduce absenteeism as well,
00:12because, you know, you'll have less people being absent from work, and it is modernizing world of labor.
00:19Now, this is not new, by the way. Maybe it is, this bill is new in Spain for the private sector,
00:25but in the world, we have so many examples of countries that have tried this.
00:30One of them is the UK that keeps doing, like, different trials about this,
00:34but Iceland did a trial from 2015 to 2019, and basically they reduced the working week from five days to four days,
00:42and the findings were quite astonishing that there wasn't any decrease in productivity.
00:50Productivity either stayed the same or was improved,
00:53and you have other countries that have been trying to do similar trials,
00:57like Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, now Spain as well.
01:01So, largely, the findings are, does it basically impact productivity?
01:07And it said, well, the findings are, it does not impact them negatively.
01:11It either stays the same or the productivity is better.
01:15So, the findings are, it is interesting.