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Discussion on: What are your thoughts on the 4-day work week?

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Dian Fay

I tried working 40-hour weeks as four tens for a while to take Fridays off, but didn't stick with it. I'd love to see more companies adopting shorter workweeks, though. Futurists were predicting for much of the 20th century that advances in automation meant that workers would be able to support ourselves and our families with less and less time on the job, which sounds pretty great from the actual future where we did this instead:

graph showing productivity on an upward trend in the USA from 1940s through the 2000s, while real wages flatline starting in the mid-1970s

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Donald Merand

Same. I found 4 10-hour days wasn't any better for me. Currently I work an overall 40-ish hour week remotely spread over 7 days at somewhat random hours, and that's actually preferable to 4 10-hour days.