Anonymousabout 4 hours ago
OpenAI's April 2026 policy paper urges governments and businesses to pilot 32-hour, four-day workweeks with no pay cuts to manage AI-driven labor disruption, backed by a broader package including robot taxes and public wealth funds. While existing trial evidence from Iceland, the UK, and Japan shows productivity and well-being gains, critics argue the proposal conveniently sidesteps harder questions about profit distribution, retraining, and the fact that OpenAI itself has not adopted the policy internally — and that reduced hours may primarily benefit already-advantaged knowledge workers while leaving lower-wage workers facing displacement.