Introduction
From the very beginning of this project, I have heard frequent if not constant assertions that “this won’t work.” While the evidence and reasoning laid out in previous chapters would hopefully be sufficient to respond to this knee-jerk reaction about the four-day workweek, it is probably useful to work through some specifics of the negative perspective.
Specific reasons why the four-day workweek might not work include the most important single one: people won’t change from their current habits and mind-set that a five-day workweek is normal and appropriate and that 40 hours of work per week (or more for non-hourly people) is fine. Subsets of that logic include the argument that people won’t accept a (slight) ...
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