{"id":6193,"date":"2017-03-21T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2017-03-20T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:15:08","slug":"sex-breaks-and-employee-satisfaction-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2017\/03\/21\/sex-breaks-and-employee-satisfaction-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex Breaks and Employee Satisfaction in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6195\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tsaiproject\/7095237743\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6195\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/03\/7095237743_0975fc2a29_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/03\/7095237743_0975fc2a29_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/03\/7095237743_0975fc2a29_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helsingborg Waterfront, Sweden. Photo by tsaiproject, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sweden has a long tradition of supporting its citizens with\u00a0protective regulations and social services, including 480 days of paid parental leave, universal health care, and free higher education. \u00a0But now, a new proposal has come forward in the Swedish town of Overtonea: to give municipal employees a paid hour break during the week to go home and have sex. \u00a0A recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/23\/world\/europe\/a-paid-hour-a-week-for-sex-swedish-town-considers-it.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0in the <em>New York Times<\/em> explains that the policy, a brainchild of councilman Per-Erik Muskos, could help with the decreasing population in\u00a0Overtonea, improve marriages, and improve employee satisfaction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muskos\u2019 idea has garnered as much praise as criticism. Many believe that it will encourage single workers to go on dates that will take longer than the one hour. And many wonder how such something like this could be enforced. Others believe that it is an excellent idea, as it will help with work-life balance. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/gu.se\/english\/about_the_university\/staff\/?languageId=100001&amp;disableRedirect=true&amp;returnUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fgu.se%2Fomuniversitetet%2Fpersonal%2F%3FuserId%3Dxdello%26userName%3DLotta%2BDellve&amp;userId=xdello&amp;userName=Lotta+Dellve#tabContentAnchor1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lotta Dellve<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sociologist from the University of Gothenburg, believes that her research supports Muskos\u2019 plan. Her findings show that short bursts of physical activity during office hours are correlated with work satisfaction and productivity. Dellve believes that sex can fulfill these needed bursts, but noted that a lot of people might struggle to find the motivation to come back to work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden has a long tradition of supporting its citizens with\u00a0protective regulations and social services, including 480 days of paid parental leave, universal health care, and free higher education. \u00a0But now, a new proposal has come forward in the Swedish town of Overtonea: to give municipal employees a paid hour break during the week to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,33],"tags":[39112,39113,120,96154,300,14936],"class_list":["post-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-health","tag-culture","tag-health","tag-sex","tag-sex-breaks","tag-sweden","tag-work-life-balance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}