To many people in corporate America, working five days a week—Monday to Friday, 9 to 5—feels as habitual as brushing their teeth. But it wasn’t always that way. In the late 1800s, a full-time ...
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The now-famed “four-day workweek” is an arrangement where businesses allow employees to reduce their weekly work schedule by an entire day. In 2024, more businesses are offering a four-day week as an ...
January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. School districts across the country are increasingly turning to four-day school weeks ...
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A British group is pushing for more companies to offer their workers shorter hours. Here’s what it looks like for two companies willing to test it out. By Isabella Kwai Photographs by Tom Jamieson For ...
Our seven-day week originates from ancient Babylonian astronomy. Babylonians observed seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, and five planets). The seven-day week spread through conquest and cultural ...
Towards the end of 2022, headlines began popping up trumpeting the arrival, at long last, of a new way of working. Business Insider’s, for example, read: “New Research May Have Just Paved the Way for ...