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Why Office Productivity Peaks at Four Days a Week
Lucas and Luna dig into the real economics of the four-day workweek. Iceland's massive pilot program with 2,500 workers showed productivity held or improved across daycare, social services, and hospitals. The UK's 2023 trial with 61 companies reported revenue growth of 1.4 percent on average over the six-month test. But Lucas pushes back on the hype: not every industry can compress output into fewer hours. Call centers, surgical wards, and shift-dependent manufacturing show different results. The episode lands on a specific framework — the output-per-hour ratio as a design problem…
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