#Ford Adopts Five Day Work Week - Motor Cities National Heritage Area

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Ford Adopts Five Day Work Week - Motor Cities National Heritage Area

On May 1, 1926, Ford Motor Company became one of the first businesses in the US to adopt a five-day, 40-hour week for workers in its factories. The policy would be expanded to include Ford’s office workers in August. The decision to reduce the workweek from six to five days had originally been made four years earlier. According to an article published in The New York Times in March 1922, Edsel…