Sweden's six-hour workday could help you live longer

FORGET diets, fitness centres and employee wellness programmes. US companies may find shorter workdays are the route to reducing health-care costs. That's one suggestion from a controversial experiment in Scandinavia - the cradle of worker-friendly capitalism - that's gaining wide notice for questioning Sweden's eight-hour workday.

"Given the attention in international media this small pilot project in Gothenburg has received, it is clear that it's an issue that attracts broad interest," said Gothenburg deputy mayor Daniel Bernmar, who helped promote the study.

A 23-month study at an eldercare facility in Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city, found that nurses …