Could America adopt a 4-day workweek? 38 US, Canadian companies join pilot program

Joe O’Connor, CEO of 4 Day Week Global, discusses the changing attitudes of work culture and how both employees and companies have been shown to benefit from reduced working hours.

Now, more than three dozen companies in the U.S. and Canada are trying it out as part of a trial program, including the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, a manufacturer of custom motorhomes in Ohio, and even a hospitality group in New Mexico that run several restaurants., began on April 1 and will last six months. In total, 38 companies across North America are taking part and nearly 2,000 employees will be getting a paid day off weekly through the course of the trial.

Amazon does this. It's awesome

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So if we're talking about 'everybody' so people would just work different shifts, but you will work 4 days out of the week instead of 5 days out of the week. 32 or 40 hours.. Personally I would want to 3 day weekend..I'll takeMondays..

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