"Cutting the work week by 25 per cent does not mean a 25-per-cent cut in productivity. Usually, the result is productivity staying the same. And it doesn’t result in people so hard-pressed that they resemble a video-clip played at a faster speed. They tend to be happier."
As if productivity has *anything* to do with it. Exercising hegemonic power over the working class, Calvanism, shipping real estate speculation returns (especially commercial) and extracting corporate welfare from commuting all mean this will simply not be allowed to happen anytime soon. Many folks I know are so overworked and stressed out by endemic understaffing that they'd refuse it based on the fear they'd fall even farther behind, anyways. Might as well implement a UBI, for how feasible this is in #NeoliberalParadise. Yes... that's exactly how they'll delegitimize this—as "utopian."
Is it time for a four-day workweek? New book shows why it may be time for a change
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/careers/management/article-is-it-time-for-a-four-day-workweek-new-book-shows-why-it-may-be-time/