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Companies that have done interesting things with shorter workweeks.

Hutch Games adopts a 4-day week!

London-based mobile games company Hutch just announced on their Web site that after participating in the 4 Day Week Global-organized trial for UK companies, they are making their

By |2022-12-13T19:44:51-08:00December 13th, 2022|4 Day Week Global, 4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies|Comments Off on Hutch Games adopts a 4-day week!

“Slow Down A Little Bit:” Brooklyn USA on the 4-day week

The Brooklyn USA podcast takes a deep dive into the 4-day week. Historian Benjamin Hunnicutt has called the push for more free time the “forgotten American dream"; but

By |2022-12-15T11:43:41-08:00December 7th, 2022|4 Day Week Global, 4-day workweek, Companies, History, Media|Comments Off on “Slow Down A Little Bit:” Brooklyn USA on the 4-day week

Emma Lewzey and Blue Sky Philanthropy on the 4-day week

Emma Lewzey at Blue Sky Philanthropy did a Facebook Live presentation about the 4-day week. Despite my comments (which I don't think are visible in the video), she

By |2022-07-13T10:48:46-07:00July 13th, 2022|4-day workweek, Advice, Business and work, Companies|Comments Off on Emma Lewzey and Blue Sky Philanthropy on the 4-day week

Juliet Schor at TED: “The 4-day week is a downpayment on a new way to live and work”

Juliet Schor's TED talk about the 4-day week is now online: I've been studying work since the 1980s, and I've never seen anything like what's happening today. Pandemic-fueled

By |2022-05-11T10:05:20-07:00May 11th, 2022|4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies, Current Affairs, Top post|Comments Off on Juliet Schor at TED: “The 4-day week is a downpayment on a new way to live and work”

Edinburgh creative agency Lux adopts a 4-day week

Edinburgh creative agency Lux has mvoed permanently to a 4-day week. They’d run a trial period for two years, and “the agency reports that overall efficiency has increased

By |2022-01-31T08:18:36-08:00January 31st, 2022|4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies|Comments Off on Edinburgh creative agency Lux adopts a 4-day week

“ After nearly two years, we’ve felt more confident than ever:” The 4-day week at Buffer

One of the objections I sometimes hear about the 4-day week is along the lines of, “Sure it sounds good at first, but aren’t the happiness and productivity

By |2022-01-31T08:09:55-08:00January 31st, 2022|4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies|1 Comment

Friday #dayweekly roundup, 14 January 2022

Here are the companies that have announced moves to a 4-day week (or back from it, in a couple cases) this week. (You can read the previous post

By |2022-01-14T10:42:03-08:00January 14th, 2022|#4dayweekly, 4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies, Current Affairs|Comments Off on Friday #dayweekly roundup, 14 January 2022

Spanish telco Telefonica will trial 4-day week in fall 2021

On the heels of the Valencia proposal to trial a 4-day week, Spanish phone company Telefonica now says it will trial a 4-day week from October to December,

By |2021-06-23T16:39:47-07:00June 23rd, 2021|4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies|Comments Off on Spanish telco Telefonica will trial 4-day week in fall 2021

“If you want to move to a 32h week and still be successful, you’ll have to master one thing first:” Wildbit’s 4-day week

Wildbit is a Philadelphia-based software firm that implemented that a 4-day week in 2017; it's one of the companies I talk about in SHORTER, after I spent some

By |2021-06-15T16:00:02-07:00June 15th, 2021|4-day workweek, Advice, Business and work, Companies|Comments Off on “If you want to move to a 32h week and still be successful, you’ll have to master one thing first:” Wildbit’s 4-day week
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