Working nine to five - Monday thru Friday is the norm. Well, not anymore. Cities across the country and even the state of Utah say fourty-hours in four-days is the way to go. Hawaii could be next.

"Something we're looking at very seriously," said Governor Linda Lingle.

Lingle and her staff are heading up a department to see if the state would benefit from the change.

A change the state wasn't into a few years back. When Senator Mike Gabbard proposed a similiar pilot program.

"Cause if we can get those cars off the roads and people can do their jobs, whether it's a four day work week or telecommuting ,it's something that needs to be looked at very carefully," says Gabbard.

Private companies are already making a switch. Not exactly adopting the four-day work week, but shifting hours and allowing some employees to work from home.

"We don't mind doing that at all, there's certain tasks that can easily be done at home and I don't have any problem with that," says Rick Moss, MOss Engineering Inc.

The only problem the Governor has is if loosing a workday means the public looses out on access to services.

"Bottom line for us is can we maintain the same level of public services going to a four-day work week. If we can't then we likely won't make that switch," says Lingle.

By reducing the number of work days to four in reality that could save the state twenty-percent on it's energy costs.

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