Hello and welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service. We are weekly guide to

the numbers all around us in the news and in life, and I'm Tim Halford. Our Sweden correspondent

Keith Moore was recently cruising through his social networks, you know, Twitter, Facebook,

Grindr, when up came a video. It's been viewed 40 million times on Facebook and shared more

than 200,000 times. The video says that Sweden is officially moving to a six-hour working

day and people will still be paid the same because experts have proved that people are just

as productive in six hours as they are in eight. Many newspapers have reported this too.

Well Keith lives in Sweden and was a little surprised and a little bit excited to learn

that according to this very popular video, Sweden is moving towards a six-hour workday.

It's been reported all over the world, but if it's happening, no one's told Keith. So we

sent Keith to do a proper day's work and find out what's going on and now he's here. Hello Keith.

Hi Tim. So according to reports, Sweden is moving to a six-hour day, true or false.

Well, you might think it's true, given how widely and confidently it's been reported,

but it certainly passed me by and I live in Sweden, as you know. So to check, I went to see

Sherst in Alberti, a Labour lawyer at Stockholm University. There are experiments going on,

but there's no such thing as a general trend towards six hours workday. So what does the law say

when it comes to working hours in Sweden? It says that work in time may not exceed 40 hours per week

unless there is a need for overtime work and it may increase up to 48 hours a week.

So that's six hours a day, eight days a week. So unless Sweden has moved to a decimal week,

I think we can say this just isn't true. Bad luck, Keith. You will have to work a normal day

like the rest of us. Maybe, but as Sherst in says, there are trials going on. One in particular

that's got a lot of attention is in a care home for the elderly in Gothenburg. The trial was

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