These trials have been a major success, by all accounts. There's been a lot of chat about the shift to the four-day work week, which I'm sure we won't be moving to anytime soon. But a lot of workers in Iceland have definitely seen benefits in terms of improvements to work-life balance, the obvious reduction in hours. And Iceland hasn't taken a productivity hit in an economic sense, or in terms of the general business performance.
If you've got a three-day weekend, then you have one day that's winding down, one day to actually do something, and one day to have the Sunday scaries. But I mean, there are plenty of people probably in the UK, actually, who are already working a de facto four-day week. I work a four-day week, because I compress my hours into four days.
[I]n the end, if there's nothing of any substance there, then it's going to go 'pop' eventually. So we'll have to see how - like I say that's not just OpenAI, it's the generative AI market in general that gives me that feel.
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