The Greeks are insane for going along with this. Revolutions have started over less. Clearly their politicians no longer have the best interests of the Greek people in mind.

The official reason for the introduction of the six-day work week is that there is a shortage of skilled workers on the Greek labor market as the population keeps shrinking and the country losing scores of thousands of workers who fled during the economic and austerity crisis in search of jobs in other countries.

So "The austerity and beatings will continue until morale improves."

Greek here.

I and many thousands of people like me have already been working 6 or 7 day weeks for years now. I've worked 50 hours this past week (no paid overtime either) and I've done 70 hour weeks this year, but not regularly, so I'm actually one of the lucky ones.

The only difference this makes is legalizing it so boss can't be sued or fined.

Headline in three months: "Less work getting done than in five-day week."

Government and management will blame lazy workers. Workers will blame government, management and burnout. Truth will be closer to the latter, but a few actually lazy employees and some innocent scapegoats will be fired to preserve the bottom line. Burnout will increase.

But at least the bosses got their bonus this month.

That's interesting. A shorter week is the way things are trending, and seems to mostly offset the loss of total productivity with better productivity-per-time. I wonder if this will actually help anything.

Step 1: Let asylum seekers drown in the Mediterranean Sea

Step 2: Greek people have to work 6 days a week

Step 3: ?

So while the world is trying to go to 4 day work week, here’s the Greeks going the opposite direction.

Dear Greeks out there, Germany has a shortage of 700.000 skilled workers and every town has a Greek restaurant.

At least when this inevitably shows a drop in productivity it can be used as ammo for reducing the workweek.

I don't get it. If the reason for this really is that there are not enogh workers present, then I why won't the employees tell their employers to go fuck themselves? I mean it doesn't sound like there aren't enough job offers on the market.

I would quit my job so fast

This seems like an excellent way for the governing party to lose big time in elections.

I thought this said geeks not greeks and then I got confused. That's wild, in North America some companies are pretending to want 4 day work weeks (like my old one that laid me off last year) and then in Greece they've actually gone ahead and implemented 6 day work weeks. Reminds me of China's 966 except this is actually legal apparently.

Just in time for 40c days too