--- title: Five Best: How the Six-Hour Workday Could Save Money description: How the six-hour workday can actually save money, could we use plant tissue to ‘build’ replacement human parts and more. canonical: https://time.com/4744380/how-the-six-hour-workday-could-save-money/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-18T16:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:55.578Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How the Six-Hour Workday Could Save Money og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4744380/how-the-six-hour-workday-could-save-money/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How the Six-Hour Workday Could Save Money twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How the Six-Hour Workday Could Save Money by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 18, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 18, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how the six-hour workday can actually save money.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-17/how-the-six-hour-workday-actually-saves-money) By Rebecca Greenfield at _Bloomberg_ **2\.** [**Could we use plant tissue to ‘build’ replacement human parts?**](http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/nature/2017/04/apple-cervix-ears-and-spinach-vein-hearts-will-humans-soon-be-biohacked) By Anjuli R. K. Shere in the _New Statesman_ **3\.** [**Can soundwaves cure brain disorders?**](http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/treating-brain-disorders-with-sound/76583) By Melissa Pandika at _Ozy_ **4\.** [**Facebook’s new advice on avoiding fake news is bad for news literacy.**](https://medium.com/@holden/facebooks-news-literacy-advice-is-harmful-to-news-literacy-3b354919b14d) By Mike Caulfield in _Medium_ **5\.** [**Universities must support students who are parents.**](http://www.chronicle.com/article/Students-Can-Be-Parents-Too/239794) By Perry Threlfall in the _Chronicle of Higher Education_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4744380/how-the-six-hour-workday-could-save-money/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4744380/how-the-six-hour-workday-could-save-money/"},"headline":"How the Six-Hour Workday Could Save Money","datePublished":"2017-04-18T16:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:55.578Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4744380/how-the-six-hour-workday-could-save-money/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","facebook","productivity","Science"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4744380/how-the-six-hour-workday-could-save-money/","name":"How the Six-Hour Workday Could Save Money"}}]}] ```