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Kickstarter Will Try Out a 4-Day Workweek in 2022

The experiment will be a valuable test of the theory that a shorter schedule can be good, or at least neutral, for businesses’ bottom lines.
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Next year, Kickstarter, the 12-year-old crowdfunding platform, will experiment with a four-day workweek, a spokesperson for the company told . The unconventional move of reducing its employees’ hours without reducing their pay will be a valuable test of the theory that a shorter schedule can—on top of improving workers’ lives—be

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