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The Case For A Four-Day Workweek

Blog Category: Personal, Professional — Blogged by: admin on July 30, 2009 at 4:46 pm

The Case For A Four-Day Workweek - Environment and Energy

How often does Utah, of all places, get mentioned as a hotbed of public-policy innovation? Not often. But, last August, the state carried out a rather novel idea: Shift all government employees to a four-day workweek. No, this wasn’t the French approach. Workers would still put in their 40 hours; they’d just toil in the office for ten hours a day, Monday through Thursday, and then get Friday off. The experiment’s been going on for a year and the results are finally in—the state actually saved a fair bit on energy costs. Scientific American reports…

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