Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI

Business leaders are split on how AI will transform the way people work.

Some, like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei , predict a white-collar jobs armageddon , while others like Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis believe the tech will usher in a “golden era” of abundance .

However, as more chatbots and automated assistants take over the duties of human roles, there’s a growing cohort of executives who see shorter workweeks on the horizon—and Zoom CEO Eric Yuan even envisioned staffers only clocking in a few days a week.

“I feel like if AI can make all of our lives better, why do we need to work for five days a week?” Yuan told The New York Times in a 2025 interview .

“Every company will support three days, four days a week.

I think this ultimately frees up everyone’s time.” It’s music to the ears of Americans stuck in corporate hustle culture , enviously watching their European peers trial four-day workweeks with major success .

And when U.S. performance coaching company Exos experimented with schedules one workday shorter, it proved to be good for business; employee burnout was cut in half, and productivity soared by 24%.

And CEOs agree shorter workweeks born from these automation gains will be terrific for human workers—even if it means fewer of them have jobs in general.

Other CEOs including Gates, Huang, and Dimon see a shorter workweek ahead AI tools can be immensely useful for staffers, cutting out everything from menial tasks like emailing to more tedious jobs like coding .

Tech leaders are seeing the gains from AI firsthand, and they’re promoting the possibility that employees will no longer have to clock in five days a week.

Billionaire Microsoft cofounder Gates has predicted that AI’s current pace of innovation will remove the need for humans for “most things” in the next 10 years.

When people are no longer needed, those who are left on staff won’t have to swipe in daily.

“What will jobs be like? Should we just work like 2 or 3 days a week?” Gates told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show last year.

“If you zoom out, the purpose of life is not just to do jobs.” Nvidia CEO Huang is also on board with the idea of fewer workdays—but has a catch.