Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. To many people in corporate America, working five days a week—Monday to Friday, 9 to 5—feels as habitual as brushing their teeth.

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School districts across the country are increasingly turning to four-day school weeks to save money, increase student attendance and recruit new teachers. But the trend isn’t taking hold in California ...

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Since the start of the pandemic, work-life balance has been all the rage, with remote work policies showing employees that there’s more to life than staying in the office all day. While there are now ...

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Math teacher Andrew Skinner greets students the week before classes resume at Martensdale-St. Marys in August 2025. Like many Iowa school districts that follow a four-day school week, Martensdale-St.