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Derek Thompson on the Five-Day Workweek

It's becoming a three-day office week within a longer workweek

Stowe Boyd
Mar 01, 2022
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Derek Thompson wrote a provocative article in The Atlantic, called The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying. I’d like to unthread a few of the ideas he’s explored.

He spoke with Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University, who offered up a fairly compelling argument, that we won’t ever go back to five days in t…

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