Probably not. Not for skilled jobs anyway, unless you mean that "productivity increase" will negate the need for serious skills. School isn't where you learn yo

Probably not. Not for skilled jobs anyway, unless you mean that "productivity increase" will negate the need for serious skills. School isn't where you learn your craft, it's at work. I can't make myself learn a new programming language outside of work. I've tried, but I glaze over very quickly. There must be a need for me to do something, and "I'd like to learn Rust" isn't a need. "My team needs this tool and are relying on me to build it" is a need. If I'm trying to do that and learn Rust at the same time, one day a week is useless. At that rate I'd be lucky to get it done in a quarter, and from one week to the next I'd have forgotten most of what I "learned" the preview week. For me, 4 days is perfect. I get a three day weekend every weekend, but I don't actually dread Thursdays because I feel like a failure in work.