A century after the weekend was invented, it has disappeared. Let’s reclaim leisure | Richard Morgan
Henry Ford’s 1926 policy held for decades before eroding into a 24/7 mindset. Here’s what we can do about it It was a Saturday. In fact, the Saturday. Almost exactly a century ago, on 25 September 1926, Henry Ford instituted a policy of weekends for his workforce. Although various labor campaigns had existed for decades to try to carve out what we now call the weekend, this was the first…
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