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
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