This year, the commission recommended a substantial wage increase amounting to some 110 billion rupees, but also decided to slash the size of the bureaucracy by 30% in stages: some 350, 000 posts currently vacant would be immediately abolished, overtime would cease, the working week would increase from five to six days, and casual leave would be cut from 12 days a year to eight.

ECONOMIST: India

Now we know from our experience in changing from six to five days and back again that we can get at least as great production in five days as we can in six, and we shall probably get a greater, for the pressure will bring better methods.

FORBES: Vacation Is Good for Business

He has asked Congress to consider changing the law and allowing the postal service to cut deliveries from six days a week to five.

ECONOMIST: The postal service

The radiation exposure from a Mars journey is similar to getting a full-body CT scan every five or six days, said lead researcher Cary Zeitlin of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.

NPR: Astronauts Face Radiation Threat On Long Mars Trip

The number of managers working six days a week has fallen from one-in-five three years ago to one-in-10 today, a report by business magazine Management Today said.

BBC: Company bosses reclaim weekends