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,
IAU Working Group on Star Names IAU Working Group on Star Names The International Astronomical Union (IAU) established a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) in May 2016 to catalog and standardize proper names for stars for the international astronomical community. It operates under Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage. The IAU states that it is keen to make a distinction between the terms "name" and "designation". To the IAU, "name" refers to the (usually colloquial) term used for a star in everyday speech, while "designation" is solely alphanumerical and used almost exclusively in official catalogues and for professional astronomy. (The WGSN notes that transliterated Bayer