‘I hate working 5 days’: Zoom CEO says traditional work schedules are becoming obsolete—and predicts a 3-day workweek by 2031

Zoom ushered in the remote era—cutting commutes, reshaping office culture, and giving millions of workers more control over their schedules. Now, as artificial intelligence begins to redefine productivity standards, Zoom’s CEO Eric Yuan is predicting an even bigger shift on the horizon: a dramatically shorter workweek. 

“I hate working five days,” Yuan told the Wall Street Journal.

“I’m pretty sure actually we really do not need to work for five days,” he said, adding that in the next half-decade, the workweek will be cut down to three days a week.

Calls for a shorter workweek aren’t new. Yuan pointed to past productivity breakthroughs—like Henry Ford’s assembly line, which helped reduce the workweek from six to five days. But this time, he argued, AI could accelerate that shift even further.

“I do not think we need to work for five days because literally, we all will employ so man...