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When New York-based digital consultancy Elephant Ventures switched to a four-day workweek in August 2020, client partner Eric Harkrader got way more efficient. The company changed its schedule to four ...

Here’s the true story of one of the oldest human customs still in use today. Why does everyone use a 7 day week, and where did it come from? Where do the names of the days come from? And who can we ...

A real-world experiment just proved that we should all shift to a four-day workweek The results are in: It's time for your company to stop working on Fridays (or Mondays). The latest, perhaps most ...

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A growing number of school districts have turned to abbreviated weeks over the past two decades, sometimes in a bid to save money, other times to give themselves the upper hand in recruiting teachers, ...

Tre Sisco wanted a teaching job with a good work-life balance after graduating from Missouri Southern State University in 2023. During his job hunt, he learned Missouri’s Independence School District ...

The world’s largest four-day working week trial has just ended and almost all of the companies that participated have decided to continue with a reduced working hours model. Participants in the trial ...

The world's largest study on a four-day work week found company revenue went up while sick days taken and employee burnout went down. The world’s largest trial of a four-day week ended this week — and ...

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