A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses.

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It turns out if you stop making people pretend to work, they work! What a concept.

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still waiting for this to happen in the global scale! One can hope for it

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Anybody else find it a bit gross that with an already productive workforce, the ‘issue’ of the 4 day work week needs to be framed like this…instead of it being about giving people their time and lives back without a reduction in pay?

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But they need da moneey

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Did they switch to 4x10 or to a 4x8?

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Microsoft, for its part, says it will conduct another experiment in Japan later this year.

Cool.

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