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3/ American companies might look abroad for reassurance that the four-day workweek has potential: Germans work substantially fewer hours than Americans, but Germany’s GDP has not suffered, @jpinsk reports: on.theatln.tc/xBJCLyZ
4/4 And while proponents of the four-day workweek often cite the benefits to companies, “the real case for the four-day workweek is not that it would benefit businesses. It’s that it would benefit people,” @jpinsk argues. Read the rest of his piece here: on.theatln.tc/xBJCLyZ

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