The Guardian

The weekend is 100 years old – but have ‘skiveday Fridays’ and hybrid working ruined it for everyone?

The weekend is 100 years old – but have ‘skiveday Fridays’ and hybrid working ruined it for everyone?WorldPing

In 1926, Henry Ford gave his employees both Saturdays and Sundays off – and the two-day chunk of time to party, pray or simply do nothing was born. Now it’s changed beyond recognition For 11 years, from 1929 to 1940, the Soviet Union did not have weekends.

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