{"id":6457,"date":"2015-06-24T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2015-06-24T01:02:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T17:02:29","slug":"why-cant-there-be-a-four-day-workweek-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/24\/why-cant-there-be-a-four-day-workweek-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can&#039;t There Be a Four-Day Workweek? &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But more broadly, the arbitrariness of the workweek\u2014and the American obsession with how many hours it contains\u2014underlines an important truth about the nature of work: Because an individual\u2019s contribution to a company can be hard to measure, everyone seizes upon time spent working (an easily measurable data point) as a proxy for how much work is actually getting done. In other words, workers\u2019 output can require so much effort to assess thoughtfully that companies focus unduly on bulking up the input\u2014whether that makes workers happy or not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/06\/four-day-workweek\/396530\/\">Why Can&#8217;t There Be a Four-Day Workweek? &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But more broadly, the arbitrariness of the workweek\u2014and the American obsession with how many hours it contains\u2014underlines an important truth about the nature of work: Because an individual\u2019s contribution to a company can be hard to measure, everyone seizes upon time spent working (an easily measurable data point) as a proxy for how much work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/24\/why-cant-there-be-a-four-day-workweek-the-atlantic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Can&#039;t There Be a Four-Day Workweek? &#8211; The Atlantic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}