Ep 538: The Four-Day Workweek Is Real – So Why Don’t We Have It Yet?

Every few weeks, another tech titan promises to hand us our time back. Jamie Dimon says a shorter workweek is coming. Elon Musk says AI will make work optional. Bill Gates is predicting two-day workweeks. Sounds amazing, except we don't actually need AI to get there. The research proving a shorter workweek works has been sitting in front of us for over a decade.

This week, bestselling author and veteran journalist Joanne Lipman joins Jean Chatzky to unpack the gap between what these executives are promising in public and what they're actually demanding from their employees in private.

In this episode, Jean and Joanne cover:

• Why the same executives predicting an AI-powered leisure future are also the most insistent on five-day, in-office weeks
• What over a decade of four-day workweek research shows about productivity, revenue, and burnout
• Why new technology almost never reduces our workload

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