Whatever happened to the 15-hour workweek?
- Written by Joshua Krook, Doctoral Candidate in Law, University of Adelaide
Where are the benefits from all that hard work?ShutterstockIn 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological change and productivity improvements would eventually lead to a 15-hour workweek. But, despite significant productivity gains over the past few decades, we still work 40 hours a week on average.