The argument for a four-day workweek, with Alex Pang
Instant Genius
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The Benefits of a Restful Workplace
Being well rested is valuable for a couple obvious reasons and a couple non-obvious ones. Industrial psychologists have been telling us for more than a century that long hours are counterproductive both at the individual level and also at the organizational level. Studies of munitions factories in Britain during World War I showed that when they went to seven days a week, 12 hours a day, production went up for about two or three weeks.
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