4-day week campaign
For the last couple months I've been working on a project that went live this week: a new campaign to build interest in the 4-day week. It's now
4-day week proposal in Chile
In the past few months I've seen a flurry of interest in the 4-day week among politicians in a number of countries: Canada's Justin Trudeau, Nicola Sturgeon in
Toyota Gothenburg and the shorter (blue collar) workweek
One of the questions people regularly ask about the 4-day week is whether it's just something that professional and creatives can implement, or whether care workers, blue collar
Marketplace talks about the 4-day week
I’m briefly on an NPR Marketplace segment about the 4-day week. A shortened workweek could become more common in industries where competition for talent is intense, said Alex
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,
“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
Amy Porterfield talks about trialing a 4-day week
Amy Porterfield is an ecommerce and online marketing expert, and a real blue-flame thinker about small business: her work helped me see (from my hyper-scale, growth-at-all-costs Silicon Valley perch)
“We see the time not too far distant when we can have a four-day week and family life will be even more fully enjoyed by every American:” Richard Nixon on the 4-day week Gallery“We see the time not too far distant when we can have a four-day week and family life will be even more fully enjoyed by every American:” Richard Nixon on the 4-day week
“We see the time not too far distant when we can have a four-day week and family life will be even more fully enjoyed by every American:” Richard Nixon on the 4-day week
Some time ago I posted about a speech that Richard Nixon gave in 1956 mentioning the 4-day week. This morning, the Nixon library sent me a PDF of
Talking about the 4-day week on KQED Forum
I was on KQED's Forum today, talking about the 4-day week. There was quite the all-star lineup: Charlotte Lockhart, Leena Yousefi (whose law firm YLaw is trialing a
The perils of loving your job
If you haven’t already read it, do go find Emi Nietfeld’s New York Times piece, "After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again.” It’s