How will a 32-hour workweek affect the motivation and productivity of the workforce? The results should be positive for motivation, since workers will have more time for leisure and other activities.1 Whether this translates into greater productivity during the day is a question that is more difficult to answer, although experiments with a compressed four-day, 40-hour workweek in the 1970s did provide some evidence in this regard. And several small-scale examples exist in which companies or jurisdictions tried out shorter workweeks, offering some results to examine. Also, the large-scale example of France with its government-mandated 35-hour workweek – although that did not use the four-day model – has ...
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