Shake Shack’s 4-day week experiment
Yahoo Finance has a piece about Shake Shack’s experiment with 4-day, 10-hour days, which started earlier this year and appears to be expanding. The better burger joint began
How much do we need to work to be happy?
One of the objections I sometimes get to the 4-day workweek runs something like this: Since we know that unemployment makes people unhappy, doesn’t this mean that reducing
Clockwise and the challenge of taming meetings in favor of focused time
For my next book, Shorter: How The 4-Day Week Can Save the World (not the exact title necessarily), I talked a lot to companies about how they fit
“the future belongs to the four-day week as the foundation of the social labor contract”
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently gave a speech that included mention of a four-day week: "It's quite possible that the future belongs to the four-day week as
My South China Morning Post piece on 996 and the culture of overwork
There's a debate going on in China over 996, the practice of working from 9 to 9, six days a week. (Some very tired yet still imaginative writers
Dog is my coauthor
A typical early morning writing. Davis gets up on the couch, insists on being petted, and eventually settles down and goes back to sleep. It's very nice, even
Eating together at work and in negotiations
In the interviews I've done with leaders and workers at companies that have implemented shorter workweeks, I often hear-- in the smaller places at least-- that they eat
There’s no Reverse Parkinson’s Law
So my friends at the 4 Day Week Campaign have released a video about the 4-day workweek: It's a nicely-done piece of work, and if you want a
The downsides of early retirement
Travel and Leisure has a piece about a software developer who retired early-- then went back to work Tony said the biggest thing he missed was human connection....
4-day weeks at the Rockwood Leadership Institute
Almost all the organizations I've been looking at for the new book are for-profit companies. This is more or less by design, since I wanted places that had