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hello and welcome to the show I'm Ki
wire this is CNN 10 where I tell you the
what letting you decide what to think
hope you had an awesome weekend happy
belated Mother's Day to all the mamas
out there so today's Monday first day of
the school week first day of the work
week for most folks but does it have to
be that way whether you're tightening
screws on an assembly line or crunching
numbers at a computer people have been
working 5 days a week for a long time
Henry Forge standardized the practice
about a hundred years ago when he
required employees at his Ford Motor
Company factories to work 40h hour weeks
or eight hours a day for 5 days a
century later though some companies are
reconsidering whether that schedule
still makes sense CNN's Claire Duffy has
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more we went from desktop to laptops to
mobiles were working working working and
there was no discussion around wait this
has gotten out of control preventing
employee burnout has become such an
important priority that nearly one-third
of large US companies are exploring
shorter work weeks one of them is exos a
performance wellness company CEO Sarah
Robo Hagen saw the burnout and wanted to
fix it it was a huge issue going on
across all of our clients and so we were
like well hey we could be a company that
could help to figure out how to solve
this her answer was something she calls
you do you Fridays so tell us about you
do you Fridays what does that mean so it
means you do you so you may choose to
say this Friday I'm exhausted I need to
go spend time out hiking other people
may say Friday is my day to just do
quiet work and not be disturbed but what
we put in place was you cannot email
text write to any of your colleagues you
can't set meetings it is you do you
Friday and what goes hand inand with you
do you Friday is how we constructed the
other days of the week we structured
this because we know actually from
training high performance athletes that
you put a lot of load on them and then
you follow it with really intentional
recovery to get more out of how the
athletes performing so think about us in
the workplace like if we're working 80
hour weeks 70 hour weeks which some
people are it's like how on Earth has
your body ever recovering of course
you're going to get burned out so the
more we can help to introduce this
concept that recovery isn't weak it's
actually part of preparing you for
higher performance I think the better
for all of us rabo Hagen partnered with
the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton
School to study how a 4-day work week
impacted employee performance we were
trying to figure out can we prove that
with a 4-day work week that employees
will perform at the same level or better
and feel better and the answer was yes
during the 6 months of the study exos
also reported that employee burnout
dropped from 70% to
30% it sounds like this works in part
because exos' culture is already
structured in this way where you have
employees who are probably already
having a lot of sort of Freedom over
their hours do you think this is
something that can work anywhere yeah
it's funny we get asked that question a
lot and I actually do like I I think it
requires leadership really being being
Innovative and how they think about what
work really is every industry can really
think about is there a way to stagger
shifts are there ways even if you can't
do the 4-day work week to really think
about what we call a recovery first
coaches Pop Quiz Hot Shots which one of
these contains the world's largest
collection of coral reefs Great Barrier
Reef Amazon Reef Oppo Reef a Christmas
Reef
okay that last one's a bad dad joke but
if you said the Great Barrier Reef you
are corally correct the remarkable site
located on the Northeast Coast of
Australia contains 2,500 individual
reefs 400 species of coral and more than
900
Islands next we're taking a trip to one
of those islands lady Elliot Island
located at the southernmost tip of the
Great Barrier Reef the island is Lush
with Greenery again regrowing after
Decades of top soil mining but now
there's a new threat to this delicate
ecosystem Mass Coral bleaching CNN's
Ivan Watson has
more an hour off the coast of Brisbane
Australia lies a tiny Paradise Island
only accessible by light aircraft we
looking at the beautiful Lighty Elliot
Arland the first AR of the St of the
Great Barrier R but it didn't always
look like this it has been through an
incredible transformation
led by one
man landing here is tricky have to deal
with a short Runway with crosswind and
it's quite bump
touchdown my pilot is Peter gash he
basically owns the island leasing it
from the Australian government and
running an Eco Resort here with his
family
my wife and I came here 40 years ago
went underwater and absolutely fell in
love with the place we made it our
life's
work because humans have not bothered
the animals for a long time since it's
been made a protected Zone because
humans don't interfere we just look but
don't touch we don't spear we don't fish
the wildlife is completely comfortable
with
us meanwhile above the surface the
island teams with seabirds
at its peak it's in excess of 200,000
birds and this tiny Island this tiny
little
island what are these tanks for example
that's our water storage okay so we
desalinate the water and we store it
there we keep about between 10 and 12
days of water how much of the energy
being used by The Resort comes from
solar power 100% of
it in the 19th century settlers mined
the island for bird guano leaving the
place mostly Barren hard coral you can
almost count the trees that were here in
197 absolutely there was almost nothing
everything you see here we
planted I couldn't walk here 15 or 20
years ago cuz it was so rough here now
we've
got natural soil magnificent is this
from your compost no it's from the trees
from the bird that's bird poop dead
birds and trees and mulch this is
naturally forming this is the island
regrowing again the island grows about 3
mm a
year human input caused the problem
nature with a bit of help from humans a
bit of human input is now recovering
it's rewarding and what it tells me is
if we can recover this small place we
can recover this big place this whole
planet that we live
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on it's not hopeless every single one of
us can make a difference
Peter's message of Hope is inspiring but
it's tempered by something we see
underwater amid the reef sharks and sea
turtles there's Coral bleached white
enough to worry this Island's greatest
Enthusiast what we do see is more and
more bleaching more and more stress on
the corals the hot water the water
warming the environment changing and
bringing up the water to me that's a big
risk the damaged Coral here part of the
mass bleaching event caused by the
Marine Heat Wave along the Great Barrier
Reef a phenomenon that could threaten
the entire
ecosystem if you're a dinosaur fan you
might want to go ahead and come with me
to the field museum in Chicago it has a
fossil on display that some scientists
call the most important fossil of all
time because it establishes a link
between birds and dinosaurs archa Optics
is the one fossil that tells us that the
birds outside our window are living
dinosaurs and I think that is so cool
and it's also the oldest fossil Bird
that's ever been found the only Jurassic
bird research suggests that birds were
the only group of dinosaurs to survive
the mass extinction roughly 66 million
years ago only 12 archaeopteris
specimens have been found and most are
on display in
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Europe in honor of Mother's day
yesterday our 10 out of 10 is a shout
out to some new moms and babies the
Nashville Zoo is welcoming the birth of
four Red River Hog piglets it's the
first litter of that species ever born
there Red River Hogs aren't endangered
but the population is decreasing in the
wild they are native to the rainforest
of Africa the Nashville Zoo is also
celebrating the birth of a male red
roughed lemur named Helios the species
is native to Madagascar and is
considered critically endangered due to
habitat loss all right you animals Shout
Out Time Mrs Kelly's class and all the
marvelous Maroons at Perry High School
in Perry Oklahoma thank you for being
you and this shout out goes to Mrs kill
cups class at Liberty Middle School in
spanway Washington the lightning lighten
up our day rise up make it a great
Monday I'll see you right back here
tomorrow I'm Koy and we are CNN 10
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