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It's time to put the 15-hour work week back on the agenda

  • Written by Anthony Veal, Adjunct Professor, Business School, University of Technology Sydney
It's time to put the 15-hour work week back on the agendaIn 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour work week – working three hours a day – within a few generations. Shutterstock

A strange thing happened on the way to the leisure society.

It was once widely anticipated that the process which saw the standard working week fall from 60 to 40 hours in wealthy nations over the first half of...

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