How the 40-hour workweek sets us all up to fail.

Working 40 hours a week in 2022 seems like a huge drain. Many young adults really struggle with balancing paid employment, household chores and social lives. Why is this? And what if there was a better way? Join us as we breakdown where the idea of working 40 hours came from, and how it is not designed for the modern world. 

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