Walt Brunson on The Four Day Workweek
Walt Brunson
The Four Day Workweek
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:01 You know, I think this is a really interesting uh topic, but I think it it kind of falls m uh into the greater scope of of why we need to keep questioning questioning our societal norms and our and our work norms and industry norms.
- 0:15 Um you gotta think in you know the early 1900s when when Henry Ford kind of invented the five-day work week more or less, um it has become the the standard up to this point.
- 0:28 But I don't think anybody has really understood or looked into very deeply how that's affecting the workforce and how it's affecting the uh uh the psychology of the workforce.
- 0:42 I think is an important important and underrated uh aspect of our productivity.
- 0:47 Um looking at things like you take that you take that extra day away and you see the increased motivation, increased productivity, you see decreased burnout, you see decreased resignations.
- 0:58 I mean I think I think it's a win-win, and that's really that's really what we need to look for, is these win-win situations where uh the employers are winning, the employees are winning, you can see overall growth in the economy, everybody's happy.
- 1:11 I mean that's that's really just uh a win for the workforce.