workweek
noun
work·week
ˈwərk-ˌwēk 
: the hours or days of work in a calendar week
40-hour workweek
a 5-day workweek
a shortened workweek
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Implementing enterprise intelligence practices can deliver financial returns in several ways:
• Productivity Transformation: The 2025 State of Teams report from Atlassian finds that employees spend a quarter of their workweek searching for information.
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Philip Brittan, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Certain policies might make work less central to people’s lives: universal basic income, for example, or a four-day workweek.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025
For sure, the whole concept of a hybrid workweek was prompted by the global pandemic, which caused a restructuring of where people work, dividing time between an office and home.
—Pat Maio, Oc Register, 8 Aug. 2025
In the last five years, hundreds of companies have piloted a four-day, 32-hour workweeks with no pay cuts to some 8,700 workers around the world.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 29 July 2025
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Philip Brittan, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Certain policies might make work less central to people’s lives: universal basic income, for example, or a four-day workweek.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025
For sure, the whole concept of a hybrid workweek was prompted by the global pandemic, which caused a restructuring of where people work, dividing time between an office and home.
—Pat Maio, Oc Register, 8 Aug. 2025
In the last five years, hundreds of companies have piloted a four-day, 32-hour workweeks with no pay cuts to some 8,700 workers around the world.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 29 July 2025
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workweek
noun
work·week
ˈwərk-ˌwēk
: the hours or days of work in a calendar week
a 40-hour workweek
a 5-day workweek
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