I'm a fan of this idea. It used to be that there was so such thing as a weekend. Farmers had no choice but to work or their crops and animals would suffer. Even when the industrial revolution came it was normal to work 7 days a week. Looks to me that weekends have only added to the human experience. Let's go for a four day week. Maybe we'll start to produce less useless crap and focus on what society needs.
The article doesn't mention whether the pay remains the same (as it should).
I would say this idea touches some of the fundaments of capitalism, including wealth distribution and therefore salaries. With less consumption maybe lower salaries would work.
Finland seems like the best country in the world- minus the freezing weather and short winter days.
Universal healthcare, income, maternity packages, Linus Torvald. What do they NOT have?
Large, poor immigrant class and a military that can protect them from Russia?
(Finland does sound pretty great)
Didn't Linus move to the US and became an US citizen?
It's about time that the "productivity boom" actually provided some benefit to the people who do the work.