Employees in Greece may have to work six days a week (Image: Getty) Greece is in crisis as one city has been forced to bring in a six-day week to get residents back to work. As other European countries are trialling four-day work weeks, Athens officials have declared that Greeks need to work more hours. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is concerned over a “ticking time bomb”, a demographic shift that has seen about half a million skilled Greek workers emigrate since the country’s debt crisis in 2009.
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The government is hoping that the six-day week will spark more economic growth and productivity to avoid the problem of a shrinking population and skille.
