Four-day week Four-day week A four-day week is an arrangement where a workplace or school has its employees or students work or attend school over the course of four days rather than the more customary five. This arrangement can be a part of flexible working hours, and is sometimes used to cut costs, as seen in the example of the so-called "4/10 work week," where employees work a normal 40 hours across four days, i.e. a "four-ten" week. In 2008, employees of the Utah state government all began working ten-hour days from Monday to Thursday. By closing state government offices on Fridays,
Welsh units homestead for purposes of inheritance &c., varying its size depending on the social status of the owner. The homestead of a nobleman (') was 12 Welsh acres, that of a serf ( ', ') had 8, and that of a bondsman or slave ( ') had 4. The text, however, notes the uncommonness of this division and says it was generally understood as 4 acres regardless of status. In the Dimetian Code used in southern Wales, the same divisions were reckoned differently: The Welsh seem to have used an eight- or nine-day week, rather than a seven-day one, long after