Tash Walker on the Boundless podcast
Last fall I spent some time at The Mix, a London research agency, and interviewed several people about the four-day week. The Mix moved to a four-day week
It’s not just about efficiency: MADE Agency’s 6-hour day
One of the things about companies working shorter hours is that while they pay a lot of attention to tightening up their processes, making meetings more efficient, keeping
The magic trick of workism
Derek Thompson writes in The Atlantic about how workism, "the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the centerpiece of one’s identity and
The next phase of writing
This weekend I printed out a draft of the next book. It's just under 50,000 words, out of about 70,000. I've still got plenty to write, but I'm
“Japanese companies are beginning to embrace… the idea of a four-day workweek”
The Japan Times has an article about "Japanese companies warming up — slowly — to four-day workweek:" Once synonymous with long work hours, Japanese companies are beginning to
Greetings from Seoul, where I’m researching four-day weeks in Asian companies
I'm in Seoul for the next several days, doing some publicity stuff for REST (my dad tells me that the translation is really top-notch), and also doing some
The Wellcome Trust thinks about four-day weeks
The Guardian, which really owns the beat on the shorter workweeks trend, reports that the Wellcome Trust "is considering moving all of its 800 head office staff to
A quick update, and more news soon
I realize I've posted very little in the last few weeks (though I've posted lots of labrador pictures), because I've been doing a lot on the next book.
Why do we talk about the possibility of 4-day weeks, rather than their reality?
This morning I ran across this piece on the Web site of English boutique recruitment consultancy Mitchell Adam: The Four-Day Working Week: Could It Work?Today, many people will
“In my experience, it is only the over-fifties who really know what they’re doing”
Rory Sutherland makes a good point about one of the benefits of shorter hours in this Spectator article, "John McDonnell’s right – the four-day week could work:" Trust