The five-day workweek may seem as old as time, but actually it’s less than a century old.
In 1908 a New England cotton mill was the first to give its employees a two-day weekend, in order to accommodate the Jewish Sabbath on Saturday and the Christian one on Sunday. Over the decades, more companies followed suit. But it was not until October 1940 that 40-hour workweeks became law. Eight-hour workdays made sense, thus the weekend, as we now know it, was adopted nationwide.
So, let the countdown begin. Five more days until Friday. In the meantime, we hope you’ll enjoy these stories:
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Deep-sea explorers in search of sunken World War II ships are honing in on a debris field deep in the Pacific where one of the most decisive battles took place.