The Importance of a Four-Day Work Week

Fewer the hours, greater the output. People are less burnt out and put in more effort. But this is only valid if the initial number of hours worked itself is extremely high. Historian Benjamin Honeycutt has a theory about changing culture. Job became a religion-like source of meaning for many people. Also the blossoming of advertising and consumerism around this same time set people on a course of working more to buy more.