Juliet Schor wants a four-day work week
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The Perpetual Guardian of Productivity
Ireland was just the first. We have more than twice as many companies and employees signed up for the u k. Trial. The spanish government announced a four day week trial months ago in which they're paying the fifth day, so the companies don't have to take the risk. So w when we see examples where productivity doesn't decline, we're not talking about adjusting for fourth day. Were saying absolute productivity of the four day week is the same, or roughly the same, as a five day week. And the argument there is the slack time. But the biggest thing is actually probatly not slack, although that's yes, meetings. A dramatic case was microsof j
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