The ladies discuss whether more companies should offer employees unlimited holiday as a standard benefit and if a better work-life balance could be achieved through a four day working week, after a Taiwanese man marries and divorces the same woman several times in the space of a few weeks to take advantage of Taiwan’s 8 day paid marriage leave policy.

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LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE 

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(Website – Show notes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/world/asia/taiwan-marriage-leave-scam.html

(Article – For Extra Days Off, Officials Say, Couple Had 4 Weddings and 3 Divorces — Tiffany May and Amy Chang Chien for The New York Times)

https://time.com/5948677/four-day-work-week-spain/

(Article – Spain Is Going to Trial a 4-Day Work Week. Could the Idea Go Mainstream Post-Pandemic? – Lisa Abend for TIME)

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/25/vacation-can-make-you-more-productive--just-ask-the-europeans.html

(Article – Vacation can make you more productive — just ask the Europeans – Elizabeth Schulze for CNBC)  

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200108-is-minimum-leave-a-better-alternative-to-unlimited-time-off

(Article – Why 'unlimited' time off isn't actually unlimited – Maya Yang for BBC Worklife)

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