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Why stop at the four-day workweek?
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Let's make that 3 x 12 hour week into a 3 x 8 hour week - that's what the article is suggesting we should think more about. Because 36 hours is basically a full work week condensed into three days - a 4 day work week refers to 4 days of 8 hours of work (32 hours per week), and the article wants to go further than that by pointing to the productivity gains we've made. Here are the top countries by least hours worked per week:
And remember, averages are skewed meaning that most people could be working less than the average. These countries are able to stay comfortably afloat despite their shorter workweeks.
When we're talking about productivity there are so many cool things we can do: unions increase productivity, 4 day work weeks increases productivity, public/free healthcare increases productivity, fast public transportation increases productivity... all these low hanging fruits that can increase our labor output per hour - they're not radical scientific advancements, they're boring things we can do right now if we put in the resources to achieve them.