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Worker waves as a colleague heads out of office.
NewslettersOne company’s 4-day workweek experiment increased productivity by 24% and cut burnout in half
By Emma BurleighApril 16, 2024
Happy female computer programmers giving high-five over desk in office
SuccessThe first company in Turkey adopts a 4-day work week, leading to an 85% rise in work-life balance and employee engagement
By Ugur Yilmaz and BloombergApril 8, 2024
Occasionally falling asleep at work is par for the course, according to a new survey by sleep wellness company Sleep Doctor, with 46% of respondents saying they nap during the workday at least a few times a year.
Life1 in 3 workers admit to regularly napping on the clock, survey says. Here’s why Gen Z and millennial men are the worst culprits
By Lindsey LeakeApril 7, 2024
lady playing with two young kids
LifestyleFrance is piloting a 4-day work week—but there’s a catch. Only divorced parents qualify for it
By Prarthana PrakashMarch 20, 2024
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LifestyleGermany is trialing a 4-day week like the U.K., U.S., and Portugal—but the country needs the opposite of a short week, senior economist says
By Prarthana PrakashJanuary 31, 2024
Hand change number 2023 to 2024 and word trends on the table
LeadershipThe rise of ‘little flex time’ and shorter work weeks: Trends that’ll reshape businesses in 2024, according to massive study of nearly 2.7 million job searches and 30,000 workers
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 30, 2023
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Retail‘Work less and work better, this is the principle’: Lamborghini makes history by agreeing to a 4-day workweek for its production workers
By Prarthana PrakashDecember 7, 2023
woman smiling and waving at her monitor
SuccessAI should make the 4-day work week possible for millions of workers. The question is whether they’ll use the free time for leisure—or more work
By Prarthana PrakashNovember 24, 2023
Microsoft founder Bill Gates
TechBill Gates teases the possibility of a 3-day work week where ‘machines can make all the food and stuff’
By Orianna Rosa RoyleNovember 23, 2023
German finance minister Christian Lindner
LifestyleTop German politician warns against adopting a 4-day workweek: ‘Never in history has a society increased its prosperity by working less’
By Christiaan HetznerNovember 6, 2023
Pedro Sanchez, Yolanda Diaz
EuropeSpain wants to cut its workweek to 37.5 hours with unemployment reaching a 15-year low of 11.6%
By Rodrigo Orihuela and BloombergOctober 24, 2023
SuccessMajor 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJuly 27, 2023
TechSamsung jumps on 4-day workweek bandwagon as it gives staff one Friday off each month in a bid to retain talent
By Sohee Kim, Shinhye Kang and BloombergJune 14, 2023
SuccessCalifornia lawmaker wants the workweek to be 32 hours. ‘Workers across the nation are collectively reimagining their relationship to labor’
By Chris MorrisMarch 14, 2023
A Chick-fil-A restaurant is seen on July 05, 2022 in Houston, Texas.
Retail‘Work three days a week, get full-time hours.’ Chick-fil-A owner’s move to 3-day schedule gets 429 applications in a week
By Alice HearingNovember 2, 2022
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