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Sweden has a 6-hour workday, because studies have shown that is optimal.

Now I'm wondering how working at home influences that optimum.

> Sweden has a 6-hour workday, because studies have shown that is optimal.

Yes, the future of work should be to reduce work hours. Working from home is beside the point if it means working more hours (which seems to be the case).

This is a bit of a myth(?) that got out of hand quickly.

For some government employees or agencies/body-shops temporarily trying to get squeeze some free PR out of it for government contracts. Not for private employees, most certainly not S/W engineers.

On fun stuff, I get more done on 12 hours than I do on 6 hours, so not sure what the variables are for the studies in question.

People generally don't get more done in 12 hours days over 40 years when you account for mistakes. That said, in short bursts you can get a lot done, but burnout is real.

12 hours per day is only possible in short bursts, not sustainable in the long term. However, I wonder how would that 6 hour work day compare to working just 3x12 hours per week. So, 3 really long days of work and 4 days of leisure time in between. I know I would really like such schedule.

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