A German study tracked workers on a four-day week using wearables and hair samples. They walked more, cortisol dropped, stress fell, and Sunday dread vanished. Wearables, journals, and logs backed it up.
And we saw a physiological increase in number of steps. So they had wearables, the control group, and the cortisol levels dropped in the hair samples that were taken. So not only did we have the reported stress, that was the first overlay of scientific evidence that we got to show. Actually, it's reported, but it is physiologically apparent we are seeing an extra increase. And what was interesting, I don't know if you've and I haven't had it for a long time, thankfully, but a lot of people have that Monday dread on a Sunday, that stress starts to ratchet up. I've got another work week. That was something that went right up in the German control group. So they asked, they did some journaling and logs. How do you feel about Monday now that you're in a four day week and that dread disappeared?
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