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Simon Hunt @ UK Tech News · 03/17/2025 03:31 EDT

Will AI spark a shift to a four-day week?

It wasn’t until the 1930s that the term ‘weekend’ entered the vernacular in the UK. Before then, many were used to working six days a week and resting on the sabbath day. But the mechanisation era of the 19th century brought with it huge productivity gains, changing working patterns until a five-day work week eventually ...

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