Full confession — last fall, when a team member proposed Ecotrust Canada shift to a four-day work week (4DWW), I scoffed. Openly. I looked around at the group of people already pressed to the limits of time to fulfill the mission of our organization and wondered aloud, how on earth would a shorter work week help? If anything, this group of harried, stressed people needed a longer work week! Admittedly, it took longer than it should have for the glaringly obvious penny to drop. I’ll blame it on the willful blindness that appears symptomatic of my accelerating age. After all, when I was a kid, I had to walk 10 miles uphill in a blizzard to get to…well, never mind. ...
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