100 years ago today, the Ford Motor Company adopted a standard for factory workers
that would come to govern many of our lives.
The five-day work week.
Ford was losing exhausted line workers who typically worked six days.
So he wasn't trying to be nice here.
He wanted a more stable and productive workforce.
He was a classic capitalist.
If the young man makes you mind to work, there's no limit to what he can do.
But we're still burned out.
And we're still looking for solutions to burnout.
Today on Today Explained, 100 years after Henry Ford said, take a day off, guys.
We're hiring life coaches.
We're neutralizing our shame, LOL.
We're going on sleep vacations.
We're literally going on a sleep vacation.
It's not going to be like when you have anesthesia and then you wake up.
But you might feel a little mellow.
And is it working?
That's coming up.
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