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Is the Four-Day Workweek Finally Within Our Grasp? - The New York Times

In May 2020, as the pandemic sent stress levels through the roof, an online children’s clothes retailer called Primary started an experiment that it hoped would prevent its staff from burning out: It gave everyone Fridays off.

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