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How reduced schedules can increase time pressure

I work four day weeks now but I just cram the same amount of work into less time and feel more stressed than when I worked five days.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Compressing obligations without reducing expectations intensifies rather than relieves temporal stress.

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