To restate the central proposition: why not reduce the number of work days to four per week from five per week, with hours per day remaining the same? This would give everyone (who could structure work this way) 20% more time for leisure and other activities.1 So, how could this be accomplished, starting from today’s standard of a five-day, 40-hour workweek?
Fundamentally, the change would take place by making one more day into a weekend day, say Friday. Then office and factory and other wage-earning workers would put in eight-hour days on Monday through Thursday. (Professional and managerial people would work four-day weeks as well, though their hours would not be limited to 32 per week just as they ...
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