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This meme is confusing to me.
If the list of arguments is about productivity increases, then employers wouldn't run away from it, they don't care how they get more job done as long as it's done.
If the list of arguments is about how employees would personally benefit from it, the employers still wouldn't run from it because those arguments aren't arguments to them and they don't care.
The type of person making these decisions is typically psychopathic and stubborn. 4 day work weeks may be objectively better for everyone but if it's not a common-sense productivity increaser, expect no change, at least in the US where corporate interests are extremely protected.
In other words they just don't believe it's true?
Yes, because people in high positions of power self-select for negative personality traits that would make them more likely to distrust obvious facts if it means improving the lives of those they control.
Don't believe or don't care. Workers are less likely to collectivize if they spend 80% of their time under the supervision of someone who's paid to stop any discussion of that kind.