New Zealand Company Experiments With a Four-Day Workweek
(WorldNews France)

The four-day workweek has been the basis of countless on-the-job daydreams and idle, longing conversations among co-workers stuck late at the office when they´d rather be home. This year, a New Zealand firm has taken the idea out of the realm of daydreams and into the reality of a pilot program experiment, in which all employees worked four days for the same pay as five. It was so successful, the New York Times reports, that the company´s board is considering making the change permanent. The 240 employees of Perpetual Guardian, a company that handles trusts,...