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This is What It's Actually Like to Work a 4-Day WorkweekWe talked to founders of three companies that made the leap.

ByJason Feifer

This story appears in theJune 2022issue of雷竞技手机版.Subscribe »

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At first it sounded like a crazy academic question:What would happen if people only worked four days a week?Studies were done, like a now famous one at Microsoft in Japan, which found that (no surprise) employee morale went up and (maybe a surprise)productivitystayed the same.

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