Spain wants to make it easy for any company to shift to a four-day workweek

A new proposal would offer government grants to companies that give employees an extra day off a week, which could help give the revolutionary idea more global momentum. The four-day week is starting to move from fantasy to the mainstream: Unilever, the massive corporation that owns brands such as Dove and Ben and Jerry’s, is now testing a shorter workweek with employees in New Zealand, who will be paid for five days while working four. Microsoft ran a similar pilot in Japan in 2019,...