By Eve Tahmincioglu
I think it’s time to throw out the five-day workweek. What about you?
We may all be a bunch of lemmings, workers and managers alike, following a system that has become obsolete for many working Americans. Why couldn’t there be a three-day workweek, or a seven-day workweek twice a month? You could think up any new model, go crazy!
Most U.S. employers, pubic and private, have operated in the same manner and few have thought to question it…until Utah.
The state instituted a four-day workweek for its public sector workers in 2008, and a story in the New York Times today talks about how other states and local municipalities are pondering a similar move but naysayers want to squash the ground-breaking effort.
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