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.

The week is seven days long. Don’t let The Beatles confuse you otherwise. And if we were all just chilling in caves, eating bugs, and painting on the walls, the seven days wouldn’t matter. But that ...

As millions across the country celebrated the Fourth of July on Friday, a rare thing occurred for the American worker: a four-day work week. Instead of meeting end-of-the-week work obligations, ...

A growing number of school districts have turned to abbreviated weeks over the past two decades, sometimes in a bid to save money, other times to give themselves the upper hand in recruiting teachers, ...

Here’s the true story of one of the oldest human customs still in use today. Why does everyone use a 7 day week, and where did it come from? Where do the names of the days come from? And who can we ...

A real-world experiment just proved that we should all shift to a four-day workweek The results are in: It's time for your company to stop working on Fridays (or Mondays). The latest, perhaps most ...

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