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Radio 4,1 min

Future working hours - more Star Trek or Mad Max?

The World Tonight

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Vivek Wadhwa, an American tech entrepreneur and fellow at the Rock Center of Corporate governance at Stanford University, looked at Google only employing 60,000 people around the world, and the working hours of the future. That may not be a lot, when compared to General Motors, one of the biggest companies of the past, which has 216,000 staff.

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