The global health crisis has caused unemployment to saw and has turned the working world on its head.

全球性的健康危機造成了失業率的拉鋸，也讓職場發生了翻天覆地的變化。

But some say the solution to the crisis lies not in working war but in working.

但有人說，解決危機的辦法不在於工作戰爭，而在於工作。

Less.

少了

Rapid transition to new ways of working is also opens up opportunities for reducing working time.

迅速過渡到新的工作方式也為減少工作時間提供了機會。

Aidan Harper works for the New Economic Foundation think tank on is championing the call for the four day working week in the UK in particular working time reduction basically flatlines since 1980 despite the fact that productivity has continued to increase up until 2000 and eight.

艾丹-哈珀在新經濟基金會智囊團工作，對是擁護四天工作周的呼籲，在英國特別是工作時間的減少基本上是平坦的，自1980年以來，儘管事實上，生產力一直持續增長，直到2000年和八。

So what I would say is that our economy at this moment time is productive enough to rapidly reduced working time for the vast majority of people.

所以我想說的是，我們的經濟在此刻時間的生產力足以迅速減少絕大多數人的工作時間。

It's not a new concept.

這不是一個新概念。

Unilever is one of the biggest brands trialing the initiative in New Zealand, where Prime Minister Jacinda Arden has encouraged the policy.

聯合利華是在紐西蘭試行該舉措的最大品牌之一，紐西蘭總理雅辛達-阿登鼓勵該政策。

Not only could it help with mental health, but it could reap significant environmental gains to there are many ways in which working time relates to things like carbon emissions.

它不僅可以幫助與心理健康，但它可以收穫顯著的環境收益到有許多方式，工作時間與碳排放等事情有關。

So if you have more time you are less likely to engage in carbon intensive activities.

是以，如果你有更多的時間，你就不太可能從事碳密集型活動。

So you're you're you're more like to walk or cycles that drive you more like to cook with fresh ingredients rather than buy expensive in carbon intensive frozen food products.

Working four days.

工作四天。

But getting paid for five sounds too good to be true, and there was a fair share of skeptics.

但拿五塊錢的報酬聽起來太美好了，懷疑者也不少。

The Confederation of British Industry cautioned that it could push many businesses into loss, but proponents claim fewer hours doesn't harm productivity.

英國工業聯合會告誡說，這可能會將許多企業推向虧損，但支持者聲稱減少工時並不會損害生產力。

Historically, when people talk about the move from a six to a five day week, you had exactly the same arguments against the move from 6 to 5 day week, as you have with people today questioning the move towards a four day week, they question the ability of firms to survive in a competitive environment.

從歷史上看，當人們談論從六天制到五天制的時候，你反對從六天制到五天制的論點和今天人們質疑走向四天制的論點完全一樣，他們質疑企業在競爭環境中的生存能力。

They talk about international competition, and they said, of course it's insane that people with work for five days on be paid for six.

他們談到國際競爭，他們說，當然，這是瘋狂的人與工作五天上被支付六天。

These are exactly the same things we hear today are three main ways in which we can see that decreasing hours.

這些正是我們今天聽到的三個主要的方法，我們可以看到，減少的時間。

It's good for productivity of the economy.

這對經濟的生產力是有好處的。

We can look at our own history to see that when we moved from a six to a five day working week, it was accompanied by increase in productivity and it was good for the economy.

我們可以看看我們自己的歷史，當我們從6天工作制轉變為5天工作制時，伴隨著生產力的提高，這對經濟是有利的。

Overall, we can also look at other countries and take a macro analysis and we can see that countries that work fewer hours tend to have much stronger economies and tend to be much more productive in countries that work lots of hours.

總的來說，我們也可以看看其他國家，進行宏觀分析，我們可以看到，工作時間少的國家往往經濟實力更強，工作時間多的國家往往生產力更高。

And finally we can see really existing examples off firms and organizations who are experimenting with reductions in working hours.

最後，我們可以看到真正現有的公司和組織正在嘗試減少工時的例子。

And they're doing this and seeing the increases in terms of increased while being decreased sickly decreased turnover.

而他們這樣做，看到的是增加的同時，被減少的病態減少的營業額。

And it's clearly good for these organizations that they have produced working time.

而對於這些機構來說，他們產生的工作時間顯然是好事。