For a few weeks, conciliation and reduction of working hours are in the focus of all eyes. Now, these issues are commented again after Elon Musk’s proposal, which has launched Your own idea of working hours.
In general, the working day is 40 hours a week, 8 hours a day. In countries like Spain, if everything goes as planned, in 2026 it will be 37 and a half hours. In Finland, for example, his day is 38.8 hours a week, while in Denmark, the Netherlands or Norway is more than 39 hours.
At the other end are other countries such as Serbia with 43.3 hours per week; Iceland with 42.5 hours per week or Greece with 42.4 hours. Far is Mexico, with 2,207 hours a year By worker or Costa Rica with 2,170 hours.
Now, the United States could reach those levels after Elon Musk’s new proposal. The richest man in the world has proposed that workers in the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) he directs work 120 hours per week. Trump considers that 40 hours are not enough, in fact he believes that his “bureaucratic opponents”, the administration workers, lose “so fast” because They work little As published in his X account.
A “complicated” and “without any remuneration work”
These statements join those he did when Donald Trump appointed him “head of cost reduction.” Musk said they needed “revolutionaries” and people with “a very high intellectual quotient willing to work more than 80 hours a week“To achieve the objective of” reduce expenses. “
In addition, he added that it is a “complicated” job for the enemies that the employee will make and that “will not have financial compensation none”.
Other measures that the tycoon has taken since his arrival to the Trump government team is the elimination of teleworking or that employees Sleep in the offices not to waste time going and coming from home.
He even threatened with mass layoffs. If the workers did not return to the offices after the elimination of teleworking, they would be fired. He also demanded from the 3.2 million officials to send an email explaining the work they had done in the last week.
These measures have not been well received in the opposition and by some secretaries of federal agencies, including some appointed by Trump, such as the National Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard.
