A handful of trials have found that a four-day workweek can create major benefits for workers and businesses alike, but skeptics question whether those effects would last if the practice was adopted more broadly.
and more time to spend with friends and families. Employers would receive the benefits of a happier workforce that would be equally or productive. Some argue that women would be especially helped by a shorter workweek, since they are more likely to deal with the burden — and professional consequences — of caring for children.
But skeptics say the success of a four-day workweek at a few dozen, largely white-collar companies is hardly an indication that it would be successful across the entire economy. They argue that shorter weeks simply aren’t feasible for a huge share of the workforce in industries like agriculture, construction and service.
While it's unlikely to be adopted as a new federal standard anytime soon, more and more companies are expected to experiment with the four-day workweek in the near future. Those trials could provide more evidence to bolster, or potentially undercut, the case for shortening the workweek.Today’s workers should be rewarded for massive gains in productivity in recent decades
“American workers are remarkably productive, but while they have spent the last 50 years steadily producing more and more, real wages have not risen at the same rate. We are, in other words, doing more for less. … Instead, it seems, technological innovations have just made us more tethered to machines and devices . Why are we doing this to ourselves?” — Jill Filipovic,“The four-day workweek is already coming; it has been studied and tested extensively. But we need to flip the narrative.
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