ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book notes that possibly the greatest challenge to implementing a four-day workweek is people's resistance to change. It looks at the quality of people's lives, measured in various ways from job satisfaction to overall life satisfaction to happiness indicators. The book focuses on productivity and motivation in order to explore the likely outcome of reducing the workweek by one day. It also looks in some detail at what people do with their time during the week beyond working. The book considers the challenge of automation/mechanization of work through machines. It explains how a four-day workweek would be implemented. The book projects the workweek and the workplace into the future, considering arrangements such as working from home, having a flexible schedule, shifting more to contract work rather than employee–employer structures, and other ideas.
