How the 40-Hour Workweek Dies

The 8-hour workday is a gray-haired remnant of the past

Jacob Bergdahl
5 min readJan 25, 2022

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The 40-hour workweek is a gray-haired remnant that has overstayed its welcome. Even though people are more productive than ever before, we still spend a ludicrous amount of our lives working.

Yes, sometimes credited to Henry Ford, who streamlined the 40-hour workweek in the USA by dividing his…

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