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
Software giant SAP recently announced that it was implementing #FocusFriday in its German offices. As executive Cawa Younosi explained on LinkedIn, Intention behind Focus Friday is to guarantee
I was on China Global TV, talking about (what else?) the 4-day week: While it looks like I'm either broadcasting from an earthquake zone or imitating the 1960s
Sir Desmond Swayne, an MP from New Forest West, has released a statement in favor of trialing a 4-day week. “The demand for a shorter working week with
This past week in news about the 4-day week: Companies Automation Made Simple writes about how they moved to a 4-day week. Not surprisingly, "we’re using automation to
In Axios, Emily Peck makes the case that "The needle isn’t moving on four-day workweeks." Despite the press that it's getting, she argues, the number of postings of
The Times of London has an article asking, “Will law firms embrace the four-day week?” Of course, as I’ve written about previously, there are firms that have already
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
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
In 2020, the Nova Scotia Municipality of the District of Guysborough introduced a 4-day workweek, which featured a combination of a shorter week and hybrid in-office and remote
