British workers may be toiling hard to ward off unemployment, but the future could bring an average of only 21 hours a week chained to their desk.

A report by the influential thinktank, the New Economic Foundation, says over-consumption, rising unemployment, increasing inequality and deteriorating work-life balance can be tackled by radically altering working life.

Reducing the working week could also defuse the pensions time bomb by ensuring employees are healthy enough to work later in life.

www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/13/...lance-week-thinktank

What are your thoughts? What should be the working week on Our Future Planet? What about holidays/vacations? What makes best sense? and why?

I think this is a cause worth campaigning for. What does the rest of the EU say about this matter? I believe that 21hours should be the basic working week as opposed to the massive 40hours (or is that 38?).

It is too much and cannot be sustained for a lifetime. People are not machines.

The future of work