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Orianna Rosa Royle

Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing

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Between client calls, meetings, and assignments, it may feel as if every minute of our working week is squeezed to the max. But as it turns out, we are all just procrastinators. 

That’s according to research that shows workers can get as much done in a 33-hour week as in 38 hours.  

The 2023 report from nonprofit advocacy group 4 Day Week Global—which is the largest of its kind and the first to examine the long-term effects of the four-day week—found that the longer people worked a four-day week, the shorter their workweeks became without output or productivity taking a hit.

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