My appearance on Pepicast
You can listen to me talk about distraction, deliberate rest, and 4-day weeks in a conversation with Montreal-based podcaster Gael Gendre on episode 43 of Gael's podcast, Pepicast. It's one
A dissent on the 4-day workweek
Ohio State University professor Allard Dembe has a piece about the potential downsides of a 4-day workweek: I have been studying the health effects of long working hours
How conforming to ideology gets money-laundered into expressing personal preference
A friend recently asked me how much things like our embrace of overwork and the M-curve in women's employment (the phenomenon of women dropping out of the workforce
“Many modern workplaces, with their lures of perks and prestige, are increasingly resembling the Fyre festival”
Bruce Daisley, podcaster, Twitter executive, and author of The Joy of Work and the forthcoming Eat Sleep Work Repeat, has a short and great piece in The Guardian
My appearance on Docuprime
The Korean documentary series Docuprime recently had an episode on work, rest, burnout, which features an appearance by me and the dogs. This evening I found it on
Harvard Business Review makes the case for my next book
In the Harvard Business Review blog, Ben Laker (one of the authors of the recent Henley Business School report on the 4-day week) and Thomas Roulet make a
My talk at Google
Recently I was at Google, at the invitation of the Asian Googlers Network, to talk about Rest, my new work on the 4-day week, and even a bit
Washington Post on the 4-day week in America
Jeff Stein at the Washington Post has a piece about the 4-day week and the lack of interest in it among American progressives and unions: In Europe, signs
Planet Money on “Japan’s Worker Shortage” and working hours
NPR’s Planet Money has a piece on efforts in Japan to allow people to work less: Some companies in Japan are going bankrupt because of the country's critical
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