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This is Build for Tomorrow, a podcast about the smartest solutions to our most misunderstood problems. I'm Jason Pfeiffer, and in each episode, I take something that

seems concerning or confusing today and figure out where it came from, what important things

we're missing, and how we can create more opportunity tomorrow. Most of us work Monday to Friday.

But have you ever wondered why we do this? I will admit that for me, this is such a basic

fact of life that it never occurred to me to wonder.

It's like asking why we eat three meals a day or why we sleep at night.

But a funny thing happens when you start asking questions.

You start to realize that more things are open to discussion than you thought.

Like, okay, what if there's actually no good reason that we work Monday to Friday and if that were the

case what would happen if we just like drop a day go from a five day work week to a four day work week

maybe you've already heard about the four day work week I hadn't until a few months ago but it's

starting to come up a lot in conversations about how we combat the great resignation or

great reconsidering or great realignment or whatever we want to call our shift in the way that we

work, where a lot of people are quitting their jobs and companies are realizing that the way that we've

worked does not work for everyone. I'd heard that the four-day work week was being studied, and I thought,

huh, what a fascinating academic experiment. Maybe, for example, you caught news of

the most famous of these studies, which took place at Microsoft in Japan. It got a lot of coverage.

Microsoft says it knows the secret to higher productivity in the workplace. The software giant

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