The weekend is 100 years old – but have ‘skiveday Fridays’ and hybrid working ruined it for (…)
In 1926, Henry Ford gave his employees both Saturdays and Sundays off – and the two-day chunk of time to party, pray or simply do nothing was born. Now it’s changed beyond recognition For 11 years, from 1929 to 1940, the Soviet Union did not have weekends. Instead, to increase productivity (…)
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