People Are Working Fewer Friday Hours, but Work Is Still Getting Done

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Friday has retained its pandemic-era benefit for many people as a half-work, half-leisure hybrid . WSJ’s Vanessa Fuhrmans joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss how that approach has spread to other areas of our lives. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0	Here's your money briefing for Friday, March 29th.
0:42.0	I'm J. R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal. For the Wall Street Journal.
0:45.0	For some, post-pandemic Fridays have become a work-from-home day,
0:51.0	maybe run a few errands day, and an opportunity to get an early start
0:55.2	on the weekend.
0:56.5	But that doesn't necessarily mean worker productivity has suffered.
1:00.1	Friday is the day of the week that is both very new and different and still stuck in the pandemic,
1:05.5	whereas the rest of the week we've kind of reached some sort of approximation of normal.
1:10.5	And you see that showing up in all sorts of facets of life.
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