New York, May 1 -- -MELVIN DURAI'S HUMOR COLUMN-

You may have heard about the four-day workweek pilot in the U.K. In 2022, 61 companies participated in the six-month experiment, allowing their full-time employees to work just four days a week. The employees were paid the same and didn't have to work any extra hours on those four days, nor did they have to delete TikTok from their phones.

A whole year has passed since the pilot ended, and at least 54 companies (89 percent) are continuing the four-day workweek policy, with 31 making it permanent, according to researchers from the think tank Autonomy, who helped organize the experiment with the groups 4-Day Week Campaign and 4 Day Week Global.

According to surveys, employees at these comp...