“In very rare cases, people begin to engage in self-development, including sports, if they have free time. 95% of people will devote themselves to idleness. Therefore, the number of obese people will increase, ”RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.
For his part, a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, candidate of medical sciences Lev Perezhogin noted that it is impossible to say unequivocally how the reduction of the working week will affect human psychology.
“Imagine a situation: you have an extra day off and your husband, if you love each other, is an occasion for you to spend time together, go somewhere, the family is happy, and if the relationship is bad, then this is an extra day for annoyance”, He explained.
Earlier, the federation of trade unions came up with a proposal to transfer Russian citizens to a four-day working week.
Elena Varshavskaya, a professor at the Department of Human Resource Management at the Higher School of Economics, expressed an opinion in an interview with NSN that the proposal was premature.
A VTsIOM survey showed that 48% of Russians would not support the transition to a four-day work week, 29% approved the idea.