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
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
The restaurants just keep coming: Los Angeles’ n/naka
One more example of a great restaurant that operates on a four-day week: Los Angeles' n/naka, profiled by Helen Rosner in this week's issue of The New Yorker:
It’s not just Michelin-starred restaurants that are doing 4-day weeks
Some of the world's best restaurants-- Noma and Relae in Copenhagen, Maison Baumé in California, Attica in Melbourne, Aizle in Edinburgh-- are shortening working hours for their chefs