The very leaders rhapsodizing about a shorter workweek are demanding more time, not less, from their employees.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of coworkers celebrates. The folks in the "Land Down Under" say nope. A new study conducted among 15 Australian companies ...

Most people think getting more done means working longer hours. I used to believe that too. You know, logging on early, stretching my day, trying to squeeze in more. But more hours didn’t make me more ...

In a 1930 essay, British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that in 100 years time, technological advances would have displaced so much human labour that people would be working 15-hour weeks – ...

A century ago, the five-day working week helped reshape society. It was introduced at scale by industrial pioneers to address not only worker wellbeing but also economic pressures. US industrialist ...

The five-day, forty-hour work week has been the default setting of professional life for nearly a century. It was codified in the United States in 1938, built around the rhythms of factory floors, and ...