40tuntisista

40tuntisista is a Finnish-language term used in public discourse to denote the concept of a standard 40-hour working week. The phrase combines the numeral 40 with a form related to tunti, the Finnish word for "hour," and is commonly used in the genitive or attributive sense to refer to a quantity of working hours within a contractual or weekly frame. In journalistic and policy contexts, 40tuntisista serves as shorthand when discussing typical full-time employment, overtime, and labor-market reforms without committing to a specific policy.

In Finland, the 40-hour week has long served as the default baseline in many collective agreements, though actual hours may vary by sector and contract. Overtime rules, part-time arrangements, and flexible work models such as compressed weeks (for example, four 10-hour days) are often evaluated against the 40-hour baseline. Advocates cite predictability and work-life balance, while critics argue that the 40-hour baseline may not fit all knowledge-based or shift-based industries in modern economies.

Variants and orthography: writers may hyphenate the form as 40-tuntisista; colloquial usage may appear without hyphen in informal writing. See also: forty-hour workweek, Finnish labor law, work-life balance.