Our employees have been begging us to try a four-day workweek.
I'm open-minded, so we ran a pilot.
Monday through Thursday.
Same salary.
Same workload.
Productivity actually increased.
People were happier.
Turnover dropped.
It was one of the most successful HR experiments we've ever conducted.
So naturally we ended it.
If they can get five days of work done in four days, imagine how much they can get done in five.
For 450 years, the world's most-used map has made Africa look smaller than it really is. The UN just voted to change that.
Al Jazeera’s Basel Ghazoghli breaks it down and goes back 450 years to show how the map was made — and why it stuck.