Mexican businessman and billionaire Carlos Slim proposed this Friday three-day work weeksBy 36 hours and retiring at 75, doubling the job supply demanded by a growing Mexican productive force.
“As this new civilization develops and productivity rises to very high levels, many people, especially young people, cannot find a job or a good job. So I think there’s an approach that really needs to be adopted, most people work three days. 11 or 12 hoursthat would be 36 hours, but they would retire by age 75”, commented Slim.
Mexico’s richest man, while attending Telmex-Telcel Foundation scholars’ “Mexico Siglo XXI” event, added: “The idea of someone retiring at 60 or 65 is ridiculous” He said that extending the age requirement to benefit from this right would prevent the collapse of both public finances and social security and pension funds.
“It would also be very important for governments and pension funds Social security and social security do not go bankrupt because people between the ages of 60-65 cannot finance their retirement.”
He also stressed that right now education, health, education and above all, a new Mexican society is being formed. “well paid job”; because it belongs to a “service society” where physical work has disappeared.
Thin, 82 yearsargued that there are already four-day-per-week samples in the world, but warned that this is not enough.
“Reducing work to four days does not create new opportunitiesbut where that happens, three days’ employment could double,” he insisted.
Owner of Grupo Carso holding, the new company is also fight poverty and illiteracyensured that it was “an economic necessity of this new civilization,” not a struggle for issues of ethical, moral, or social justice.
He also noted that new jobs should target industries. education, culture, entertainment and tourismamong others.