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Re-thinking the four-day workweek experiment

What it means to work fewer hours and how the idea sits with business as an ecosystem.

Nathan Smith
Fri, 09 Feb 2018

Here’s a thought experiment: If you were given every Friday off to do something other than paid work, what would you do? What could you do? What would you want to do?

This question points to some of the niggling doubts about economic growth in the modern business world. There is nothing divine

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Nathan Smith
Fri, 09 Feb 2018
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