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How to Make a Four-Day Workweek Sustainable
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A four-day workweek sounds great in theory. But what would it take to actually make the practice sustainable?
First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
Fewer Hours, Same Workload?
The idea of a four-day workweek sounds enticing: Work efficiently over a
Saving Local News Could Also Save Taxpayers Money
Zak Podmore did not bring down a corrupt mayor. He did not discover secret torture sites or expose abuses by a powerful religious institution. But there was something about this one article he wrote as a reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune in 2019 that changed my conception of the value of local news.
Podmore, then a staff journalist for the Tribune and a corps member of Report for America, a nonprofit I co-founded, published a story revealing that