While the relationships between health, productivity and the workplace are complicated, research provides tantalizing perspectives into the potential of getting these elements right in the workplace. (Photo: Bloomberg)
With a flurry of research on 4-day workweeks and 5-hour workdays, the notion of how our days are best structured is gaining increasing attention. As it should. The concept of the eight-hour workday is itself a relatively recent invention with Robert Owen discussing the division of the day into three equal parts–"eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest"–in 1817.
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