Tag: Workweek
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
Oh, the 4-Day Workweek? We Crushed It. So Can You.
I have an abnormal nostalgia for a phenomenon from my grad school days known as “Thirsty Thursday.”The combination of evening classes on Thursdays and no classes on Fridays led to the MBA Students’ Association enacting a weekly … well, Thirsty Thursday. We were tired. We were ready for a break. We were parched.
So when the opportunity presented itself for Thursday night to mark the start of the weekend again, I was intrigued.
Obviously, the four-day workweek (4DWW) isn’t about
The Maryland Politician Who Is Arguing for a Four-Day Workweek
The Maryland State Capitol building is older than America. It is the only state capitol to have also served as the nation’s capital; in the country’s earliest days, Congress met in its chambers. To work in Annapolis is to operate in the shadow of history. So maybe that explains why, 246 years into the American project, one state lawmaker sees his four-day-workweek bill as carrying on in the tradition of the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. That, or it’s