Celebrating 100 years of weekends (and why they might be disappearing)

In 1926, the car industrialist Henry Ford announced his factories would be moving to a five-day working week with two consecutive days off for workers. It marked the birth of the weekend as we know it (though in Australia the five-day working week wasn't legislated until 1947). Weekends have been a cornerstone of our lives, carving out time to relax, play and be with our loved ones. But is the…