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Nicola Sturgeon: “we should be encouraging employers to look at embracing… [t]hings like a four-day week”

Last month I published an article in the Atlantic arguing that a 4-day week could help companies that had closed or shifted to remote operations during the pandemic

By |2021-07-26T10:38:00-07:00May 21st, 2020|4-day workweek, SHORTER|5 Comments

The Atlantic: Making the case for reopening with a 4-day week

In today's Atlantic I have an essay arguing for reopening businesses on a 4-day week. The argument has two parts. First, offices have proved to be a significant

Penguin Connect: “Could this be the moment when the 9-5 as we know it dies?”

San Francisco in the lockdown I hardly know a writer who isn't either studying life under lockdown, or trying to write something about life after lockdown. Alice Vincent

Talking with Moira Gunn about creativity, rest, and shorter working hours on Tech Nation

A couple weeks ago I went up to San Francisco to do an interview with Moira Gunn for Tech Nation. It was, incredibly, my third appearance on the

By |2021-07-26T10:38:00-07:00April 13th, 2020|4-day workweek, Media, REST, SHORTER|Comments Off on Talking with Moira Gunn about creativity, rest, and shorter working hours on Tech Nation

“This step-by-step guide will lead you to rethink the ideals of a typical schedule”

Hong Kong’s Taikoo Place, a cool office + art space, lists SHORTER as one of its business “ Books to Inspire, Empower, and Educate.” Author Emily Cho writeS,

By |2020-04-08T14:08:00-07:00April 8th, 2020|Review, SHORTER|Comments Off on “This step-by-step guide will lead you to rethink the ideals of a typical schedule”

Talking about the 4-day week on “Hope and Patience”

When I was in London I was lucky enough to be able to connect with Amelia Rope, the host of the "Hope and Patience" podcast, to talk about

By |2020-09-11T09:43:18-07:00April 3rd, 2020|4-day workweek, Media, SHORTER|Comments Off on Talking about the 4-day week on “Hope and Patience”

Chief Learning Officer: Thinking through COVID-19 and the 4-day week

I've been thinking a good bit about the potential impact of COVID-19 (and the next pandemic or global emergency) on the future of work, and particularly whether the

By |2021-07-26T10:37:28-07:00March 23rd, 2020|4-day workweek, Business and work, Current Affairs, SHORTER|2 Comments

Financial Times: Tories painted the “four-day week as this crazy socialist Venezuelan money tree hatched in some Soviet institute for economic disinformation”

Emma Jacobs in the Financial Times writes about SHORTER and the 4-day week. (It's the latest of a run of articles about SHORTER and REST in the Financial

By |2021-02-23T11:40:05-08:00March 11th, 2020|4-day workweek, Media, SHORTER, Writing|Comments Off on Financial Times: Tories painted the “four-day week as this crazy socialist Venezuelan money tree hatched in some Soviet institute for economic disinformation”
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