During the 1920s, most advocates of scientific management, Frederick Taylor's method for maximizing workers' productivity by rigorously routinizing their jobs, opposed the five-day workweek.

在20世纪20年代，大多数科学管理的支持者反对每周五天的工作制。科学管理是弗雷德里克·泰勒通过严格程序化工作来最大化工人生产力的方法。

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If you've been longing to research how hot dogs, theme parks, and the five-day workweek have impacted American leisure culture, check out the University of Iowa course "The American Vacation".

如果你一直渴望研究热狗、主题公园以及每周五天的工作日制度如何影响美国人的休闲文化，那就办好手续，去听一听衣阿华大学开设的“美国人的假期”这门课程吧。

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Checking Facebook five times a day at six minutes a pop adds up to two and a half hours in a workweek.

每天浏览Facebook五次，一次六分钟，那在工作时间总共花了两个半小时。

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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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