OK, we put "30 hour work week" in the title instead. Thanks!
After downloading the aforementioned paper and uploading the to google translate, since I don't speak Swedish:
> Summary 18 months with 6 hours
> 6 hours of trial
> City of Gothenburg decided in 2014 to conduct a trial with 6-hour day with follow-up research. The trial started 2015-02-01 and 2016-12-31 terminated after 23 months. The trial will answer the question about the effects of reduced working hours have for nurses, tenants and the economy / jobs.
> The trial has been shortened working hours to 6 hours per day and 14.9 full-time employees, 17 nurses have been hired to compensate for reduced working hours. Consequential changes have made of schedule at Svartedalen center for the elderly. To provide a high comparability has no other changes made by different senior housing from others. In follow research studies 100 % Of nurses participated.
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> There are 29 sessions on a six-week period in the new schedule. Three of the six weekends included. Employees at Svartedalen work in the trial between five and seven hours on daily schedule. In practice, between 6 hours and 6.25 hours (6 hours and 15 minutes). That it not exactly six hours per day due to scheduling must answer received business needs.
> Night schedule is at least six and no more than eight hours. Before the experiment was working nine hours on overnight.
So yeah, the resulting full-time hours were 30, but the study was specifically interested in 6-hour work days, according to the report. The only reason it wasn't exactly 6 was for business/logistical reasons.
The person you are calling inaccurate said as much in different words.
If it wasn't exactly 6 then you shouldn't call it 6.
It does say 5 to 7 hours and looking up other Swedish media that have reported on the length on shifts they also say 5 to 7.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article22726117.ab
http://www.gp.se/nyheter/göteborg/sextimmarsdag-på-äldreboen...
http://www.fria.nu/artikel/119894
The report itself is a bit vague what it actually means by in practice.
Full explanation ->
From the report with Google Translate
> Full-time dimensions in the study is 30 hours / week compared to normal working hours at 38.25 hours in the daytime alternatively 37.00 hours (depending on working agreement at the time of appointment) and 36.33 hours for the night.
So the report clearly states 30 hours/week as "heltidsmått" (a measured full-time). Not 6 hours/day.
What about "in practice"? If you look at the first report after 6 months
http://goteborg.vansterpartiet.se/files/2015/10/2015-10-07-6...
Page 6, two tables of example schedules, one to the left before the pilot and the right during the pilot. Remember that a work day includes a free 30 min lunch break so there is a difference between the two columns Period and Timmar (Hours) for 0.5h except the night shift, no free lunch there!
As we can see all day shifts are either 6h or 6.25h during the pilot.
So what about the 5 to 7 hours? I think that is the range what the pilot accepts as "6-hour" workday measurement, i.e you have to have min-max otherwise you could put everything on two days.
Found in the summary after 12 months slide 8
http://we.gu.se/digitalAssets/1574/1574441_2016-04-21-1445-s...
Left column, the Trial 5-7 hours/day as "ram" (frame, within these numbers, budget)
But in practice the schedule ended up as 6 to 6.25h. I guess to try to be true to 6-hour workday ideal.
Note: working hours in Sweden is regulated to 40 hours/week.
https://www.av.se/arbetsmiljoarbete-och-inspektioner/lagar-o...
New note: one of the political parties behind this pilot, the Left party, calls the pilot "six hour working day/30 hours working week". That should keep it covered!
http://nyheter24.se/debatt/767075-pilhem-v-darfor-infor-vi-6...