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Poll Results: Could a Four-Day Workweek Work in Distribution?

The world's largest trial of the four-day work week drew rave reviews from companies that participated. Could the distribution industry benefit from such a change?

March 6, 2023

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Results of the world’s largest trial of the four-day work week

are in, and a majority of supervisors and employees liked it so much that they’ve decided to keep the arrangement. In fact, 15% of the employees who participated in the trial —

detailed here by The Washington Post

— said “no amount of money” would convince them to go back to working five days a week. Last week, MDM

posted a poll

on our Independent Distributors LinkedIn group and on

our LinkedIn page

asking distribution executives if they thought a four-day work week could ever be feasible for the wholesale distribution sector. The…

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