>For studio executives, it means making do with smaller crews, outsourcing production overseas, and, eventually, using AI to replace some human labor.

Ah so this might be how "shorter working hours" looks on the ground. "Leisure and Culture"'s share of the pie has actually shrunk abit:

https://archive.md/2026.06.04-075622/https://www.theguardian...

That's world, not US, so it might also be that foreign production teams are not counted as "leisure and culture" in their own jurisdictions lol

Original pdf here, p11 https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2026...