Carlos Slim, the world's second richest man, is advocating a three-day work week. NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
The Financial Times reported that in a speech at a conference in Paraguay, Slim advocated a radical change in the typical five-day work week.
"People are going to have to work for more years, until they are 70 or 75, and just work three days a week -- perhaps 11 hours a day," the paper quotes him as saying.
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The paper said that workers at Telmex, the telecom company that has made him the world's second richest man by some estimates, now can retire before they are 50 years old in some cases.
But it reported that those eligible for such early retirement are given the option of a four-day work week at full pay upon reaching retirement age.
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"With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life," Slim was quoted as saying. "Having four days [off] would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied."
Employees in Mexico work more hours than their counterparts in any other country, according to a study by the OECD, an international economic forum. The study shows workers there work 2,317 hours a year, or 44.6 hours a week, compared to an average of 1,798 hours a year in the United States.
For U.S. workers, the 40-hour,. five-day work week became the standard in 1938. Despite gains in productivity and predictions of a significantly shorter work week that would follow, it has remained the standard for more than 75 years.
But while the 40-hour, five-day weeks is most common arrangement for full-time U.S. workers, 29% of employers offer their employees the option of a compressed work week, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. Those employers allow full-time employees to work longer days for part of the week or pay period in exchange for shorter days or a day off each week or pay period.
First Published: July 21, 2014: 7:24 AM ET
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