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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
America Is in the ‘Figure It Out Yourself’ Era of the Pandemic
In 2018, while reporting on pandemic preparedness in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I heard many people joking about the fictional 15th article of the country’s constitution: Débrouillez-vous, or “Figure it out yourself.” It was a droll and weary acknowledgment that the government won’t save you, and you must make do with the resources you’ve got. The United States is now firmly in the débrouillez-vous era of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Across the country, almost all government efforts to curtail