Apparently, a good percentage of people in the 1950s (but not a majority) believed that we would be enjoying a three day work week by now. Were robots going to do all the work? Is it like George Jetson worked – just pressing the button once in a while?
| Gallup Poll (AIPO) [December, 1959] |
| LOOKING AHEAD TO 1980, THAT IS, 20 YEARS TIME, WHICH OF THESE DO YOU THINK WILL HAVE HAPPENED BY THEN?… WE WILL BE WORKING A THREE DAY WEEK |
27% YES 64 NO 9 DON'T KNOW
Methodology: Conducted by Gallup Organization, December 3-December 8, 1959 and based on personal interviews with a national adult sample of 1,560. [USGALLUP.59-621.Q060G]
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The French are pretty close (or at least closer) to that than we are… though it seems like Sarkozy is trying to push back to the 40 hr/wk