As countries in Europe and North America emerge from lockdown and start trying to rebuild their devastated economies, the great concern is jobs.
Unemployment in the United States and Canada is over 13 percent, a postwar high. If it weren’t for subsidies that keep up to a fifth of the working population in paid "furloughs" from their jobs, jobless rates in Europe would be as high or higher. That can’t go on forever, so there is a frantic search for job-saving strategies — and the four-day work week keeps coming up.