Forget the 4-day workweek. We should be talking about the 5-day, 32-hour week instead

A small point in the UAW contract negotiations points to what could be a radical change in how we think about work.

I often think about the Maggie Smith line in Downton Abbey “What is a weekend?” Being a Countess, she didn’t know what a weekend was because she had no workweek. But there was a time in the not so distant past when working Americans also had never heard of a weekend for the opposite reason: They often worked six or seven days a week.

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