This is What It’s Actually Like to Work a 4-Day Workweek

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At first it sounded like a crazy academic question: What would happen if people only worked four days a week? Studies were done, like a now famous one at Microsoft in Japan, which found that (no surprise) employee morale went up and (maybe a surprise) productivity stayed the same.



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