Author and organizational psychologist Adam Grant tweeted out some thoughts earlier this year about the still-rare phenomenon of the four-day work week. The Monday-Friday grind, he explained "is a human invention." This is not to say that things can't change. Indeed, they are changing. Just very slowly.
Job postings that mention four-day work weeks, Grant continued, have tripled since 2018. Nevertheless, they still only represent around 1% of jobs today. "Why are we afraid to run the experiment?" Grant tweeted. "Worst-case scenario, we'll learn something." The way that, well, researchers in one country just did.
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