Too much work

I dragged myself through one of those afternoons today - when I had a shitload of stuff to do, but just felt like goofing off. I wanted to kill a few minutes - hoping this too shall pass. I grazed the internet and found that some countries like France, Germany and Netherlands support 35-hour work weeks. And they actually seem to see some rationale behind this -

(Source: Wikipedia)

1. To reduce unemployment and yield a better repartition of work, in a context where some people work long hours while some others are unemployed. A 10.2% decrease in the hours extracted from each worker would, theoretically, require firms to hire correspondingly more workers, a remedy for unemployment.


2. To take advantage of improvements in productivity of modern society in order to give workers some more personal time in order to enhance their quality of life

Now I feel motivated.... to goof off.