{"id":18437,"date":"2020-05-20T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/jacinda-ardern-flags-four-day-working-week-as-way-to-rebuild-new-zealand-after-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-05-20T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T02:23:49","slug":"jacinda-ardern-flags-four-day-working-week-as-way-to-rebuild-new-zealand-after-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18437","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern flags four-day working week as way to rebuild New Zealand after Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says flexible working options can boost productivity and domestic tourism and improve work\/life balance<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/how-do-you-think-new-zealand-should-change-after-covid-19\">How do you think New Zealand should change after Covid-19?<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has suggested employers consider a four-day working week and other flexible working options as a way to boost tourism and help employees address persistent work\/life balance issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?v=236345824321997&amp;ref=search\">In a Facebook live video<\/a> Ardern said people had suggested everything from the shorter work week to more public holidays as a means to stimulate the economy and encourage domestic tourism, while the borders remain closed to foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/jacinda-ardern-flags-four-day-working-week-as-way-to-rebuild-new-zealand-after-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says flexible working options can boost productivity and domestic tourism and improve work\/life balanceHow do you think New Zealand should change after Covid-19? New Zealand\u2019s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has suggested employers conside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18438,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437\/revisions\/18438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}