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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

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Synergy Vision, a London-based medical and health care communications company, introduced a four-day week in late 2018. After six months, in a company-wide survey, 51 percent of employees said they were “very happy” at work (up from 12 percent) and 88 percent said they had enough time for personal tasks (up from 54 percent).

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More Managers Than Ever Are Keeping Tabs on the News—Here’s What It Means for Companies

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In addition, 38% of employees in the survey expressed that increased uncertainty in current events is making it hard for them to focus at work. Chief Medical Officer at Real , clinical assistant professor at Stanford University and founder and executive director of Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation. “It

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AI Probably Won’t Take Your Job In 2024

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Two-thirds of the over 1,200 professionals interviewed in Thomas Reuters’ recent “Future of Professionals Survey” said that they believe AI will be high-impact or transformational in their profession over the next five years. In our most recent survey, that was last June, was actually just 32%,” Andrews said. “I

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