Juliet Schor wants a four-day work week
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Rigt: The single biggest improvement in my quality of life was the radical reduction in meetingste meetings ere just a terrible time suck and an soula, a soul suck on some level. Some companies are giving four day weeks to those kinds of workers without expecting them to intensify. There were some trials done in sweden with nurses where they were given six hour days, and they just hired new people. They get a lot of cost savings on the health ar side with the nurses,. On the fewer sick days, few less unemployment benefits, people are not quitting and burning out. So you've got a lot of heterogeneity in the work force. But the four day week can work for
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