The 5-hour workday is obviously a benefit to employees. Who doesn’t want to get off work at 1:00 in the afternoon? Still, I was running a business.

US work culture revolves around employees putting in eight hours a day, five days a week — a schedule immortalized by Dolly Parton in her 1980 song “9 to 5.” ...

Here’s What Happened When a Financial Services Firm Changed Its Workday to 5 Hours Now a lot more people want to work there.

6 Tricks to Make the 5-Hour Workday Work for You The five-hour workday isn’t just a myth you’ve heard about around the water cooler. It’s real, and it can work for your team.

In a 5-Hour Work Day (5HWD), all work for the day is squeezed into 5, not 8, hours. This compression is only possible with a great deal of focus and self-discipline.

Our 9-to-5 grind has created a cult of workaholics. And, unfortunately, the eight-hour workday hasn’t budged in 100 years.

There are calls for the workday to be reduced to five or six hours, with proponents saying it would increase employee wellbeing, and ultimately productivity.

Recent trials suggest that a six-hour workday could not only be better for your health, it could boost your productivity – and your company’s profits.

Our 9-to-5 grind has created a cult of workaholics. And, unfortunately, the eight-hour workday hasn’t budged in 100 years.