Sixty-one companies in the United Kingdom joined a pilot program in June 2022 in which they reduced their employees' workweek to four days—with no reduction in salary—and eight months later, 91% of them say they have no plans to go back to a five-day week.
They unironically admitted that the low-rung workers also serve as babysitters for grown adults who are too dull to come up with anything to do on their own.
I joked about it before, and I will do so again. Underneath the thin veneer of some sort of honor culture, the American workplace is adult day care.