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May 26, 2026

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Four-day week cut burnout without cutting output, Australian study finds

Four-day work weeks held up beautifully in a two-year Australian trial just published in a Nature Portfolio journal β€” 14 of the 15 companies involved decided to keep the shorter week for good. Six actually saw productivity rise, and the rest held steady.

The secret wasn't cramming five days into four, but rethinking the work itself: cutting pointless meetings, automating repetitive tasks, and letting people focus on what mattered. Six of the companies said their main motivation was easing burnout, which a 2025 Beyond Blue survey found affects one in two Australian workers.

As AI reshapes what humans actually need to do at work, this quiet experiment suggests a hopeful answer to where those reclaimed hours could go β€” back to us.

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