Workers are crying out for a four-day week. It's time for their bosses to pay attention [cnn.com]

By Allison Morrow, Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images, CNN Business, November 17, 2021

A key lesson of the "Great Resignation" is becoming increasingly clear: It's time to shave a day off the workweek.

American workers are quitting in record numbers — 4.3 million in August, and another 4.4 million in September. Managers across industries are having trouble hiring, even as they raise wages and offer incentives.

But a new survey offers support for a not-so-radical but still uncommon solution: The four-day workweek.

Researchers for financial firm Jefferies asked young Americans (ages 22 to 35) who had quit their jobs recently what their former bosses could have done to persuade them to stay. Thirty-two percent said they would have stayed if they'd been offered a four-day work week. That was the second most-common answer, right behind the 43% who would have stayed for more money.

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