Fewer hours, same pay: NZ company's four-day work week 'a success'

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A view of downtown Auckland from aboard the Devonport ferry in New Zealand.

Commuters on a ferry in Auckland in 2017. Source: David Maurice Smith for The New York Times


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By Charlotte Graham Mclay © 2018 New York Times, Hương Lan

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