The media in the UK, the USA, Russia, Europe, Australia and India wrote that the 34-year-old Prime Minister Sanna Marin announces the introduction of a four-day working week and six-hour working days in the country. We figure out if this is so.

In the first week of January, the whole world once again inflamed with envy of the residents of Finland. Then they have a sauna with a warm and lamp Scandinavian "Hugge", then the best school education in the world without marks. And now a new blow: 34-year-old Prime Minister Sanna Marin announces the introduction of a four-day working week and six-hour working day in the country. The media wrote about this in the UK, the USA, Russia, Europe, Australia and India - from the most respected and large to niche and regional.

Everything would be fine, but some other media, such as, for example, Washington Post and News Now Finland, decided to check the information and understand how realistic this innovation is and where his legs grow from. And they found out that the government does not plan anything like that in the near future. Moreover, no one even seriously works on this idea.

How did it happen? But how.

In August 2019, then the Minister of Transport Marin took part in festive events dedicated to the anniversary of the creation of the ruling Social Democratic Party of Finland in which it consists. A panel discussion was planned in the festive program. Here, in a warm blessed atmosphere, she said that perhaps the country would have benefited (attention!) "or A four -day working week, or six -hour working day. " She never spoke about the introduction of both.

Then she wrote about this on her twitter, saying separately that this is not part of the government program, but her personal good wish.

Well, wrote and wrote. Fine. Only four months later, for some reason, the Austrian news edition of Kontrast recalled this statement, while correctly telling about the circumstances of the appearance of the statement, but replacing the union “or” with “and”.

And finally, on January 2, the New Europe Brussels newspaper issued an article with a very misleading heading that the Prime Minister calls for both one and the other. And already this article raised a wave and misled the whole world. The media decided that this was a fresh initiative and almost a decision of the current prime minister. The Finnish authorities had to give her a refutation many times. But, as is usually the case in such cases, it dispersed much worse than a beautiful, but inaccurate pseudoic.

In fact, the story was too good to be true.