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So today's Monday, first day of the school week, first day of the work week for most folks, but does it have to be that way?[qh]
那么今天是星期一，学校周的第一天，大多数人工作周的第一天，但必须是这样吗？[qh]
Whether you're tightening screws on an assembly line or crunching numbers at a computer, people have been working five days a week for a long time.[qh]
无论你是在装配线上拧紧螺丝，还是在电脑前处理数据，人们长期以来一直每周工作五天。[qh]
Henry Ford standardized the practice about 100 years ago when he required employees at his Ford Motor Company factories to work 40-hour weeks or eight hours a day for five days.[qh]
亨利·福特大约在100年前将这种做法标准化，当时他要求他的福特汽车公司工厂的员工每周工作40小时，或每天工作8小时，每周工作5天。[qh]
A century later, though, some companies are reconsidering whether that schedule still makes sense.[qh]
一个世纪后，不过，一些公司正在重新考虑这种时间表是否仍然合理。[qh]
CNN's Clare Duffy has more.[qh]
CNN的克莱尔·达菲带来更多报道。[qh]
We went from desktops to laptops to mobiles.[qh]
我们从台式机发展到笔记本电脑，再到手机。[qh]
We're working, working, working, and there was no discussion around, wait, this has gotten out of control.[qh]
我们一直在工作、工作、工作，没有进行任何讨论，等等，这已经失控了。[qh]
Preventing employee burnout has become such an important priority that nearly one-third of large U.S. companies are exploring shorter work weeks.[qh]
防止员工倦怠已成为如此重要的优先事项，以至于近三分之一的美国大公司正在探索缩短工作周。[qh]
One of them is Exos, a performance wellness company.[qh]
其中之一是Exos，一家体能训练公司。[qh]
CEO Sarah Robb O'Hagan, saw the burnout and wanted to fix it.[qh]
首席执行官莎拉·罗柏·欧哈根看到了这种精疲力竭的状况，并想要解决它。[qh]
It was a huge issue going on across all of our clients.[qh]
这是一个在我们所有客户中都存在的巨大问题。[qh]
And so we were like, well, hey, we could be a company that can help to figure out how to solve this.[qh]
所以我们就像，嗯，嘿，我们可以成为一家公司，帮助找出如何解决这个问题。[qh]
Her answer was something she calls You Do You Fridays. So tell us about You Do You Fridays. What does that mean? So it means you do you.[qh]
她的答案是她所谓的“过自己的星期五”。那么跟我们说说“过自己的星期五”吧。那是什么意思？就是说，做你自己。[qh]
So you may choose to say this Friday, I'm exhausted. I need to go spend time out hiking.[qh]
所以你可以选择说，这个星期五，我累坏了。我需要去徒步旅行。[qh]
Other people may say Friday's my day to just do quiet work and not be disturbed.[qh]
其他人可能会说，星期五是我做安静的工作、不受打扰的日子。[qh]
But what we put in place was you cannot email, text, write to any of your colleagues. You can't set meetings. It is You Do You Friday.[qh]
但是我们所做的是，你不能给你的任何同事发电子邮件、发短信、写信。你不能安排会议。这是“过自己的星期五”。[qh]
And what goes hand in hand with You Do You Friday is how we constructed the other days of the week.[qh]
与“过自己的星期五”息息相关的是，我们如何构建一周中的其他日子。[qh]
We structured this because we know actually from training high performance athletes that you put a lot of load on them and then you follow it with really intentional recovery to get more out of how the athlete's performing.[qh]
我们之所以这样安排，是因为我们从训练高性能运动员的过程中了解到，你给他们施加了很大的负荷，然后你要进行真正有针对性的恢复，以从运动员的表现中获得更多。[qh]
So think about us in the workplace. Like if we're working 80-hour weeks, 70-hour weeks, which some people are, it's like how on earth is your body ever recovering? Of course you're going to get burned out.[qh]
所以想想我们在工作场所的情况。就像如果我们每周工作80小时、70小时，有些人就是这样，这就像是你的身体究竟如何恢复？当然你会筋疲力尽。[qh]
So the more we can help to introduce this concept that recovery isn't weak, it's actually part of preparing you for higher performance. I think the better for all of us.[qh]
因此，我们越能够帮助引入这个概念，这对我们所有人越好，即恢复不是微弱的，它实际上会为你准备更高表现。[qh]
Robb O'Hagan partnered with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School to study how a four-day work week impacted employee performance.[qh]
罗布·奥哈根与宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院合作，研究每周四天工作制如何影响员工绩效。[qh]
We were trying to figure out, can we prove that with a fou-day work week that employees will perform at the same level or better and feel better? And the answer was yes.[qh]
我们试图弄清楚，我们能否证明，在每周工作四天的情况下，员工的表现会保持在相同水平或更好，并且感觉更好？答案是肯定的。[qh]
During the six months of the study, Exos also reported that employee burnout dropped from 70% to 30%.[qh]
在研究的六个月期间，Exos公司还报告称，员工的职业倦怠率从70%下降到了30%。[qh]
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