{"id":11341,"date":"2020-05-21T11:40:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T08:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=11341"},"modified":"2020-05-23T17:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:06:25","slug":"kiwis-eye-shorter-working-week-in-post-lockdown-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/weben\/kiwis-eye-shorter-working-week-in-post-lockdown-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwis eye shorter working week in post-lockdown economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday raised the prospect of Kiwis enjoying extra public holidays and a shorter working week to help kickstart New Zealand&#8217;s post-lockdown economy.\u00a0Ardern said she wanted to encourage &#8221;nimble&#8221; and creative ideas for recovery after a strict seven-week lockdown that helped New Zealand contain COVID-19 but stalled the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions included moving to a four-day week and creating extra public holidays to help boost spending in the tourism and hospitality sectors that have been hit particularly hard by the lockdown.\u00a0&#8221;This is an extraordinary time and we should be willing to consider extraordinary ideas,&#8221; she told reporters, adding: &#8221;I haven&#8217;t ruled anything in or out.&#8221;\u00a0Ardern said there is &#8221;a range of options and we should be open (minded)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After talking to tourism industry representatives on Tuesday, the prime minister said working from home during lockdown had shown how productive employees could be if given extra flexibility.\u00a0She said a four-day week could work the same way if employers were willing to try it.\u00a0&#8221;Think about if that&#8217;s something that would work for your workplace, because it certainly would help tourism all around the country,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand, with a population of five million, has recorded just 21 coronavirus deaths, thanks largely to the early lockdown and rigorous adherence to anti-virus measures.\u00a0International borders remain closed but New Zealanders are now free to travel domestically, with tourism operators and airlines ramping up services to meet demand.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/news\/world\/kiwis-eye-shorter-working-week-in-post-lockdown-economy\/article\/571954\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday raised the prospect of Kiwis enjoying extra public holidays and a shorter working week to help kickstart New Zealand&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,77],"tags":[1013,2760,2759],"class_list":["post-11341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weben","category-weeks-highlights","tag-new-zealand","tag-post-lockdown-economy","tag-shorter-working-week","wpcat-40-id","wpcat-77-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11343,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341\/revisions\/11343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}