In case you don’t like working Mondays or Fridays, you may not should for for much longer. Billionaire sports activities and Hollywood expertise agent chief Ari Emanuel believes synthetic intelligence will usher in a brand new period of work-life steadiness—one the place a shorter workweek is the brand new norm.
“There’s going to be more free time,” he advised the Monetary Instances, including that the world can realistically minimize the workweek to 4, and even three days, within the coming years.
However that doesn’t imply everybody will simply be bored at dwelling with nothing to do as a result of their AI assistants can prepare dinner, clear and even commute on their behalf. Emanuel expects the better flexibility will lead folks to spend extra time having fun with the extra enjoyable issues in life.
“If you believe the premise that humans are social animals, they’re going to have to do something,” Emanuel added. “They can’t just sit at home, so they’ll go to music, they’ll go to sports and they’ll go to my live events.”
After the sale and rebrand, he’s now the manager chair of TKO Group, behind UFC and WWE, in addition to WME Group, a Hollywood expertise company whose purchasers have included Oprah Winfrey, Ben Affleck, and Martin Scorsese. Emanuel additionally has a brand new firm, MARI, which is able to handle the Madrid and Miami tennis Opens in addition to the Frieze artwork gala’s, all of which he acquired from Endeavor.
A shorter workweek is embraced by prime tech leaders
Whereas the shift to a decreased workweek could seem far-fetched—particularly as many corporations push workers again into the workplace 5 days every week—Emanuel has been predicting such a change since 2023, again when ChatGPT was nonetheless in its infancy.
Since then, the thought has gained traction amongst a few of the world’s most influential tech leaders. Later that yr, Microsoft cofounder Invoice Gates urged society would possibly “eventually” attain some extent the place the three-day workweek turns into the norm.
However in March of 2025, Gates sounded extra assured, saying people will quickly now not be wanted “for most things.”
“What will jobs be like? Should we just work like 2 or 3 days a week?” the billionaire posed to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Present.
At the same time as an advocate for working onerous—particularly within the workplace—JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon admitted that expertise will seemingly shave off the necessity to work 5 days every week.
“People have to take a deep breath,” Dimon advised Bloomberg in late 2023. “Technology has always replaced jobs. Your children are going to live to 100 and not have cancer because of technology, and literally they’ll probably be working three and a half days a week.”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—the chief of the world’s most dear firm—stated earlier this yr that whereas the AI revolution continues to be in its early days, it might “probably” result in a shift to a four-day workweek as productiveness rises. However, he famous, there might be loads left to do.
“I’m always waiting for work to get done because I’ve got more ideas,” Huang advised Fox Enterprise in August, including that he thinks “most companies have more ideas than we know what to pursue. And so the more productive we are, the more opportunity we get to go pursue new ideas.”
