Productivity: Japan considering four-day work week: Is India ready for a shorter work week?
Since the beginning of the 20th century, several notable economists and industrialists including John Maynard Keynes have predicted that the four-day workweek was inevitable as a consequence of improvements in technology and as the concept of leisure came to be appreciated more, not simply as a means by which to relieve stress, but as a vehicle of economic growth. Proposals for a four-day work vary from a reduction in the total number of work hours per week to the addition of a full holiday to the conventional weekend. The UK's Labour Party, as part of its election manifesto in 2018, had pr...
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