Finland's new female prime minister hopes to introduce a new system of work: 6hours per day, four days a week

January 5, According to a report by the UK's Daily Mail, Finland's new femaleprime minister, Sanna Marin, called for a more flexible work system. Thenew system will encourage Finnish nationals to work four days a week and sixhours a day.

Born in November 1985, Sanna Marin is 34 years old and assumes office inDecember 2019. He is the youngest Prime Minister of Finland, the thirdwoman Prime Minister, and one of the youngest government leaders in the world.

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Angsana Marin believes that the new system will allow employees to work moretime with his family. "I think people should spend more time withfamily and loved ones, and spend more time in other aspects of life, such ashobbies and culture. The new work system will open a new stage of working lifefor the Finnish people." She Say.

Women leaders occupy a prominent place in the current Finnishgovernment. Of the five coalition parties led by the Finnish SocialDemocratic Party, all five party leaders are women, including Sanna Marin, fourof whom are under 35. In the cabinet of Sanna Marin, 12 of the 19ministers are women.

Finland has a population of about 5.5 million. In 2016, Finland introduceda regulation to increase the total working hours of workers throughout theyear. Since then, unions and business owners have been unable to agree onworking hours.

Finland currently operates a regular work system, that is, five days a week andeight hours a day. The neighboring Swedish city of Gothenburg piloted asix-hour work day in 2015.

In 2019, Microsoft also conducted a new working system test in Japan,increasing the weekly rest days to three days. The actual test resultsshow that the employee's work efficiency for 4 days increased by 39.9%.

(Original title: The 34-year-old female Prime Minister of Finland wants toimplement a new working system: 6 hours a day, 4 days a week)