Temporary 4-day weeks: Shopify and the NBA
There are a number of companies that have discovered during the pandemic that they could permanently shift to a 4-day week (I wrote about some of them for
Femma’s report on its 30-hour week
The Belgian research and advocacy group Femma spent 2019 working a 30-hour week, and has just released a report in English [pdf] talking about their experience. One of
Talking about routines in the Financial Times
The Financial Times recently launched a new series on "Rebooting the Workplace," which consists of essays by various invited experts on different aspects of the future of work
The “Someday Experiment” at Polar: Implementing an intentional 4-day week
The advertising technology company Polar, which makes the popular ad platform Social Display, recently moved to a 4-day week, as part of what CEO Kunal Gupta calls The
Medtronic and the shorter workweek
The Asia-Pacific division of Medtronic, the world’s biggest medical device maker, is pioneering a new way to shorten working hours. In most of the companies I discuss in
Wellness Wednesdays at PTHR
I recently wrote an article for Fast Company about companies that have adopted 4-day weeks during the pandemic. They’ve discovered during the lockdown that responding to the demands
SHORTER in Korean!
SHORTER is now out in Korea, and also available (or just previewed?) on Google Books: There are few things cooler, and in some ways more puzzling, than your
My Fast Company article on the pandemic and 4-day week
I've got a new piece in Fast Company about how companies are moving from lockdown to 4-day weeks: Many businesses that moved to remote work in response to
Work Less and Boost Productivity: Talking with Ajay Mathur about SHORTER
I talk with Ajay Mathur about the 4-day week and the future of work: It was a good conversation: despite my awesome home studio setup we ended up
How to put insights from REST and SHORTER into practice if you’re not a CEO
During the lively Q&A at this Friday's (virtual, sigh) talk about the 4-day week and future of work to the Design Business Association, Anna Cox, a professor at