Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. To many people in corporate America, working five days a week—Monday to Friday, 9 to 5—feels as habitual as brushing their teeth.

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School districts across the country are increasingly turning to four-day school weeks to save money, increase student attendance and recruit new teachers. But the trend isn’t taking hold in California ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For many people, the 40-hour work week can be an exhausting grind ...

Since the start of the pandemic, work-life balance has been all the rage, with remote work policies showing employees that there’s more to life than staying in the office all day. While there are now ...

Math teacher Andrew Skinner greets students the week before classes resume at Martensdale-St. Marys in August 2025. Like many Iowa school districts that follow a four-day school week, Martensdale-St.

Tre Sisco wanted a teaching job with a good work-life balance after graduating from Missouri Southern State University in 2023. During his job hunt, he learned Missouri’s Independence School District ...

A British group is pushing for more companies to offer their workers shorter hours. Here’s what it looks like for two companies willing to test it out. By Isabella Kwai Photographs by Tom Jamieson For ...

The results are in: It's time for your company to stop working on Fridays (or Mondays). The latest, perhaps most convincing evidence yet for the shift to a four-day workweek comes from a six-month ...