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
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