![The Brian Lehrer Show show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/030/137/small/wnyc-s-brian-lehrer-show.jpg)
Summary: <p>Iceland just released the <a href="https://autonomy.work/portfolio/icelandsww/" target="_blank">results </a>of a four-year study of more than 2,500 employees in different fields whose work weeks were reduced by one day. Anne Helen Petersen, culture writer and the co-author of the forthcoming book <em>Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home</em>,talks about the study's findings and whether shortening schedules could work in the United States.</p>