Zoom CEO agrees with Bill Gates and Jensen Huang, says AI will soon make three-day week a reality

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has stated that he believes that the use of AI in workplace will ultimately lead to the workweek getting shorter to the point where there would be no need for five days workweek and every comapny could support three or four day weeks.

In an interaction with New York Times, Yuan said, “In other words, I feel like if A.I. can make all of our lives better, why do we need to work for five days a week? Every company will support three days, four days a week. I think this ultimately frees up everyone’s time.”

Speaking about the impact of AI on “Whenever there’s a technology paradigm shift, some job opportunities are gone, but it will create some new opportunities, right? For some jobs, like entry-level engineers, we can use A.I. to write code. However, you still need to manage that code. You also create a lot of digital agents, and you need someone to manage those agents.”Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has stated that he believes that the use of AI in workplace will ultimately lead to the workweek getting shorter to the point where there would be no need for five days workweek and every comapny could support three or four day weeks.

In an interaction with New York Times, Yuan said, “In other words, I feel like if A.I. can make all of our lives better, why do we need to work for five days a week? Every company will support three days, four days a week. I think this ultimately frees up everyone’s time.”

Speaking about the impact of AI on “Whenever there’s a technology paradigm shift, some job opportunities are gone, but it will create some new opportunities, right? For some jobs, like entry-level engineers, we can use A.I. to write code. However, you still need to manage that code. You also create a lot of digital agents, and you need someone to manage those agents.”

The impact of AI on workforce has remained a hotly contested topic in the recent years. While some business leaders like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believe that AI would lead to widespread job loss especially in white collar positions, others like Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has previously said that the advent of Artificial General Ingelligence (AGI) in the next 5-10 years could usher in an era of ‘radical abudance’ and a kind of ‘golden era’.

Meanwhile, Yuan isn't the first to make these remarks about the use of AI shortening the work week. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have both made similar remarks previously said that AI could handle a bulk of work in the future and it would give the general public a chance to dial back from their work.

"If you eventually get a society where you only have to work three days a week, that's probably OK," Gates told Trevor Noah in a podcast in 2023.

Unlike Gates, Huang believes that there is a possibility of having four day work weeks in the future but people could actually become businer than than they are now. Huang warns that a four day week would mean cramming the same or more amount of work into a condensed schedule.

The impact of AI on workforce has remained a hotly contested topic in the recent years. While some business leaders like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believe that AI would lead to widespread job loss especially in white collar positions, others like Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has previously said that the advent of Artificial General Ingelligence (AGI) in the next 5-10 years could usher in an era of ‘radical abudance’ and a kind of ‘golden era’.

Meanwhile, Yuan isn't the first to make these remarks about the use of AI shortening the work week. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have both made similar remarks previously said that AI could handle a bulk of work in the future and it would give the general public a chance to dial back from their work.

"If you eventually get a society where you only have to work three days a week, that's probably OK," Gates told Trevor Noah in a podcast in 2023.

Unlike Gates, Huang believes that there is a possibility of having four day work weeks in the future but people could actually become businer than than they are now. Huang warns that a four day week would mean cramming the same or more amount of work into a condensed schedule.