Information appears today in the news about Spain, which is one of the countries in Europe where more hours are worked (around 200 hours per year more than in the European average) but with low productivity.
As an alternative, there are entrepreneurs who believe that the solution is to increase the working hours per week even more, but the example of Iberdrola defends another position: the continuous journey increases productivity.
Apparently, only 20% of Spanish workers have continuous work, but their implementation only suggests benefits. It would be necessary to accompany the news of the increase in productivity at work, which is positive for family life not having to spend time away from home or more trips by car than necessary. It is impressive to quantify the time spent at the wheel in large cities to complete the workday, which increases with the partition of it and what could mean in welfare for the worker to save it.
There are other measures to reconcile family and work life that are more complicated to develop, either because you have to give up part of the salary (in the reduction of working hours) or because the current economic situation does not allow you to allocate more public money to its fulfillment (how to extend maternity leave). But moving from a split day to a continuous one is something that would benefit both the family and the company.
I hope that the unions pick up the proposal and make it their own, since the employers do not seem to have the initiative to carry it forward. An applause for the brave Iberdrola.
