Well the it&#x27;s the late 70&#x27;s the &quot;myth&quot; of the American 3 day work week was some what still relevant until the 80&#x27;s pretty much blew it out of the water.<p>From the late 50&#x27;s trough out the 70&#x27;s there was a great &quot;hope&quot; that automation and technology will result in shorter and shorter work weeks, that might actually could&#x27;ve been achievable to some degree if the US and the western world at large did not had to compete with emerging markets.<p>In 1979&#x27;s China wasn&#x27;t the monster it is today, India was in worse shape than some African countries and Japan was the source of all the cheap electronic junk.<p>Sadly enough today the companies and verticals that can actually drive the work week down mainly startups rather propagate the myth of developers that work 12+ hours a day and to make this myth a reality we get work places that serve 3-4 meals a day, have showers, gym access and sleeping rooms even.
I wonder just how competitive a startup could really bee if it asked it&#x27;s workers to only work 5-6 hours instead of working 4 and spending the rest playing foosball and catching up on cat videos...