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
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences proposes a 4-day, 36-hour workweek
According to a story in the China Daily, “the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences proposed revising the national work schedule in 2030 to nine hours a day and
Listening to “A 4-Day Week: The Time is Now!” Session at The World Transformed
In September, there was an interesting session on the four-day week at The World Transformed, an event in Liverpool that sounds like a fringe festival paralleling the UK
“We converted 20% less work into 50% more weekend:” Australian company Icelab’s four-day workweek
There’s a classic (classic among grad students, anyway) Matt Groening cartoon about graduate school: At the risk of being the person who reads another book in order to
Adam Smith disliked overwork
https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/5500538580/in/photolist-9o4Gu5 Adam Smith's tomb, Edinburgh The report from The Mix about its four-day week had a quote from Adam Smith that "the man who works so moderately as
The Mix’s report on four-day weeks
https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/43507534760/in/datetaken/ One of the places I visited in London during my recent recent trip was The Mix, a research consultancy founded in 2012. Almost exactly a year ago,
The Labour Party talks about four-day weeks
https://flic.kr/p/2c1h4zT The City, from the 6th floor of Shoreditch House While I was in England, interviewing companies about how they implement and manage their four-day weeks, the UK's