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welcome to the cotkey ride home for t Tuesday, July 6th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

Why do we have a five-day work week? And could changes from the pandemic be enough to finally

implement the long-held fantasy of the four-day work week?

Are we looking at a passwordless login landscape in our near future?

And vinyl is more popular than CDs, but could disruptions to supply and demand change that?

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

After a year of disruption, a lot has the potential to change in the way we work. Whether or not anything actually will remains to be seen, but, you know, apart from more remote working and virtual options,

another big question being asked is if we

really need to be working as much as we do. Why do we have a Monday through Friday 9 to 5 for most

office jobs? Does it still make sense in the 21st century when some people are able to check

in on work at all hours of the day and all days of the week.

Did it ever make sense? And is it time to change it up? The concept of a five-day work week

goes back to a New England mill in 1908, who essentially gave workers both Saturday and Sunday

off to accommodate both Jewish and Christian workers. The two-day weekend

caught on during the Great Depression, even more, because shorter hours were seen as a remedy

to underemployment, according to the Atlantic. But even the idea of a week lasting seven days

is a fairly arbitrary man-made invention dating back to the Babylonians 4,000 years ago

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