Reduction of hours of work

Reduction of hours of work may refer to:Six-hour day, proposed as an alternative to a four-day week Eight-hour day movement, a former social movement to regulate the length of a working day. The eight-hour day was first introduced by law in Spain in 1919 and later the same year ratified by 52 countries at the Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919. Three-Day Week, introduced from 1973 to 1974 in the United Kingdom to conserve electricity Four-day week, a policy to reduce the working week to four days rather than the more customary five 35-hour workweek, a labour reform policy adopted in France in 2000 Working time § Gradual decrease in working hours Work–life balance