The Myth Of The Four-Hour Workday

The 4-Hour Workweek concept by Tim Ferriss got people thinking about what the workweek of the future (and today) will or could look like. I don’t think Ferriss is actually advocating working four hours a week. Instead, he looked at remote work and outsourcing as ways to streamline someone’s workflow and create a more satisfying life. Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, has espoused that by 2030 the average workday will be four hours.

Many people posited that when we had all this automation, computers—and artificial intelligence—our workdays would be shorter and shorter. Everybody thought that life was going to be better, easier, and we would have more leisure time.