Experten fordern eine Vier-Tage-Woche in Großbritannien, da eine Studie einen Zusammenhang zwischen langen Arbeitszeiten und Fettleibigkeit herstellt
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/10/experts-call-for-uk-four-day-week-as-study-links-long-work-hours-to-obesity
Von weregonnamakit
18 Kommentare
AI will be calling for zero-day weeks as study finds AI has taken all the jobs
I can dream
Having no time to prepare proper meals or exercise leads to obesity. Shocker.
The UK government has never allowed expert advice to stop them from making unforced errors
Japanese workers and their interminable days are entering the chat and disagreeing… Bad food and no movement are to blame.
I am sorry but the solution is 4 day work week? Not eating less junk, or moving more during the day?
People love to blame everything other than themselves. You need say 2000 calories a day as your maintenance. You really can eat shitty and still be under that by a decent margin.
You could eat a big mac meal with coke zero twice a day, and nothing else yet still lose weight.
Studies should cover the link between stagnant wages, higher cost of living to make meaningful progress and obesity
Weight loss is built on consistency. Trying to fit 40 hours into a 4 day week is a recipe for stress eating 4 days a week.
Instead there should be longer lunch breaks which can include light movement outside, couples with healthy eating during the day.
Blaming work for eating. Those experts really pulled out the stops on this one. Maybe just the obese should do a 4 day week. Positive discrimination.
Electric rising desk and walking pads should be normalised.
I work 12-15 hours a day and find time so no excuses really.
I’m a tradie and self employed wonder how that’s going to help me. Far from obese but yes decent meals are few and far between if your doing 15+ hrs a day.
How about a 1 day week so we can all sit around being paid to be unproductive.
Meanwhile China overtakes us even more. I sometimes wonder what planet these people are on.
More evidence “public health” is just more anti capitalist grift.
Good luck getting either employers to effectively give people a 20% pay rise or workers to effectively take a 20% pay cut.
I guess this means Starmer will announce mandatory 6 day working weeks then
Can attest. No time to exercise. Barely time to prep meals and often eat while I’m working through my dinner break. Can’t financially afford to reduce hours.
This is crazy IMO and another example of a country rapidly slipping down the global rankings acting like we’re still first. We need to urgently drive up our productivity not work 1/5th less.
Focus on the benefit cheats first and driving up research and innovation.
Run my own business, work 50 plus hours a week on my feet. Still manage to get to the gym every morning for an hour. Time shouldn’t be an excuse. Commute and poor wages don’t help.