"But alongside those concerns came a more hopeful idea: that technology could turbocharge productivity so much so that the traditional five-day, 9-to-5 workweek may no longer make sense. And it's just not burnt-out employees floating the idea of skipping work on Fridays. Some of the world's most influential business leaders have publicly suggested the shift may be inevitable. Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has said advancing technology could eventually push the workweek down to just three-and-a-half days."
"Elon Musk has taken the idea to its logical extreme, positing that the need to work altogether could cease. "In less than 20 years-but maybe even as little as 10 or 15 years-the advancements in AI and robotics will bring us to the point where working is optional," Musk said in November. Taken together, the predictions suggest a shorter workweek is no longer a distant thought experiment. Governments and employers are already testing what less work might look like in practice."
Advancements in AI and robotics are creating a credible path toward dramatically shorter or optional workweeks by turbocharging productivity. High-profile business leaders have proposed reduced work schedules, ranging from three-and-a-half days to possibly two days or none at all. Some governments and companies are already experimenting with four-day options and flexible Fridays, with reported productivity gains in certain cases. Continued automation-driven productivity growth could accelerate these scheduling experiments and rekindle broader debates about labor demand, economic organization, social policy, and how people and societies can thrive if human labor becomes less central to growth.
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