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Perhaps not a surprise. But working less, for the same pay, makes workers feel better and more relaxed.
we study how an organization-wide 4-day workweek intervention—with no reduction in pay—affects workers' well-being.
These are the findings from new peer-reviewed research published in Nature Human Behaviour, where researchers monitored the effects of a four-day work week for six months.
About 2,896 employees across 141 organisations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom took part.
They answered surveys before and after the trial. Their answers were then compared with 285 employees from 12 companies who worked a normal five-day week.
shows improvements in burnout, job satisfaction, mental health and physical health—a pattern not observed in 12 control companies.
Three key factors mediate the relationship: improved self-reported work ability, reduced sleep problems and decreased fatigue. The results indicate that income-preserving 4-day workweeks are an effective organizational intervention for enhancing workers' well-being.
[...] "We know when people are really stressed and burnt out and not sleeping well, productivity doesn't just continue upwards," Dr Sander said.
Who wouldn't want to work one day less per week for the same pay ...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-22/four-day-work-week-health-burnout/105555392
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02259-6
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26, @04:46PM
If you think about it, the military, and everyone in it, is a tool - in all meanings of the word - to be wielded or deployed by the government of the day in whatever capacity it pleases. People who join the military literally and explicitly declare "I will obey any and all order regardless of its morality, without question(*), I will not think for myself and obey like an automaton".
I do not understand why the military or its members are so revered in the USA.
(*) And don't give me the crap about "you are told to disobey illegal orders", the side that wins makes everything they did 'legal' anyway.