Advance reading copy of SHORTER!
I was at Public Affairs today for some meetings (I’m reading the audiobook ofSHORTER (US | UK) and we’re starting to think about the marketing and publicity campaigns)
Microsoft Japan’s 4-day week
One of the concerns that some people raise about the 4-day workweek is that while it might work great at little places that are nimble and flexible, it’s
4-day workweek is #1 “emerging perk,” according to sketchily-sourced survey of millennials
YARAT, Baku The Global Recruiter reports on the results of a survey by Seatfrog about millennial attitudes to perks. [T]oday’s young workers are looking for more than just
Danish municipality trialing a 4-day week
Odsherred Municipality, a rural peninsula an hour north of Copenhagen, is trialing a 4-day week, according to The Local: The northwest Zealand municipality’s 300-strong staff is to be
The Drum’s 4-day week
The Drum, which covers the marketing industry in Europe, has released a video about the 4-day week at The Lab, a London agency works a 4-day week with
Adam Smith on the value of moderation
Adam Smith's tomb, Edinburgh Peter Barnard, in a comment on Jenni Russell's recent column talking about REST (US | UK) points to an Adam Smith quote from the
Why isn’t the four-day week a utopia?
Shoreditch, 2018 Wired UK has a piece by Hazel Sheffield explaining "Why four-day working weeks may not be the utopia they seem." To my practiced eye, one thing
Now U.S. labor unions are talking about a 4-day week
Unions in the UK have been talking about the 4-day week for some time, and now American unions are starting to take notice, Alexia Fernández Campbell reports in
The man who broke the calendar: About IIH Nordic and its 4-day week
One of the companies I write about in SHORTER (US | UK) is IIH Nordic, a Copenhagen-based data marketing firm that implemented, and has become a Nordic model for, a
Die 5-Stunden-Revolution
While SHORTER (US | UK) moves through production (I get the copyedits next week, and have a bunch of revisions to put in), there's another book about shortening