If you happen to like our videos and hav→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Charles Dickens' Sledge Hammer for the Poor Man's Child https://youtu.be/UMQj_fnyJd8 In this video: On September 25, 1926, the Ford Motor Company instituted a five-day, 40-hour work week for its factory employees. While Ford wasn’t the first to do this, they were arguably one of the most influential. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/09/five-day-work-week-became-popular/ Sources: https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Work-Autobiography-Henry/dp/149428300X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1473026645&sr=8-1&keywords=autobiography+of+henry+ford&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=1e9dd17a60514f85c34f3961d221f9f8 http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-factory-workers-get-40-hour-week https://www.yahoo.com/autos/bp/sept-25-henry-ford-makes-five-day-week-125810651.html https://worldhistoryproject.org/1926/9/25/henry-ford-announces-5-day-work-week Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_assembly_line_-_1913.jpg https://uk.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Ford_Motor_Company_assembly_line.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eldorado_IL_Grand_1939.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LongBeachFord.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edsel_Bryant_Ford.jpg https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-243287125/stock-photo-alcoholism%2C-alcohol-addiction-and-people-concept-close-up-of-male-alcoholic-drinking-beer-and-smoking-cigarette-at-night https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-185883724/stock-photo-close-up-of-salary-text-on-small-chalk-board-with-increasing-coin-stack-on-wooden-table https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-233445973/stock-photo-sales-increase-on-pocket-watch-face-wit