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Contributing Business Writer

Collette McKenna Parker

July 9, 2008

Much like the local companies in the latest Catalyst feature story, " Road Rage," the Gwinnett County DMV is also moving to a four-day work week. The $4-a-gallon fuel cost may be the reason for the change, but I suspect the four-day work week will stick, and may continue to shift even more.
 
“Yes, there certainly are a number of customer-facing roles for which you clearly have to be available when the customers are there,” writes Tammy Erickson in Harvard Business. “But an increasing proportion of the economy is comprised of work that is individually paced. We may confer with colleagues to get input, but for more and more of us, a colleague’s decision to take the day off will have little direct affect on our immediate productivity.” Read more from Erickson here.
 
And what about abolishing weekends altogether?

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