five-day week
Monday through Friday
A five-day week is a work or school schedule running Monday through Friday, with Saturday and Sunday off.
The arrangement became standard in Western countries during the twentieth century: We switched to a five-day week and productivity actually improved.
The term often appears in discussions of labor rights or alternative schedules like the four-day week.
- hoursSixty-minute spans
- Henry FordAmerican automaker, early 1900s
- officeProfessional work location
- break roomStaff relaxation space
- blue collarManual labor workforce
white collar · flexitime · labor unions · union contract · working day · work-life balance · job · daily routines · full-time · family time · paid leave · industrial revolution · schedule · overtime · public holidays · job satisfaction · Monday · productivity
- week-based calendars
five-day weekfour-day week
Schedule with Friday off
hustle culture · overwork · weekend work · flexible schedule
five, week, fiver, fives, fifteen, fifteens, fifteenth, fifties, fiftieth