> Presumably the shorter the work day, the more likely you would be to consider it ok to push through it if you feel ill
If the net effect is that you still show up to work anyway, does it really matter?
If the net effect is that you still show up to work anyway, does it really matter?
To be clear: I'm not stating a belief in terms of whether or not people do this or not, but it is a tricky confounding factor to exclude, because everyone involved in an experiment like that will have vested interests in the outcome that might significantly affect how they act.
It's not like you can double-blind a study like this. Ultimately it will likely take long-term studies from places that actually implement it on an ongoing basis over much longer time frames to get a true picture of the effects.
That said, as I said, I'm all for working fewer hours. I just don't think figuring out what the cost/benefit tradeoff is will be remotely this simple.