Instead of the usual five-day workweek, employees work four ten-hour shifts per week, with no overtime.

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This eventually translated into a series of government programs, such as state-funded primary and secondary schooling, the adoption of a five-day, forty-hour workweek, elimination of child labor, introduction of welfare and unemployment services, senior income support, workplace safety regulations, environmental regulations, and eventually some form of universal healthcare.

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At Navsys, five of its 20 remaining workers have shifted to a four-day workweek.

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