The 4-day week on TED Ideas
My latest article about the 4-day week is now out on the TED Ideas Web site. In recent decades, globalization, outsourcing, automation, digitization and, most recently, the rise
Iceland is conducting the world’s biggest experiment in shorter working hours
Three years ago when I started writing SHORTER, it was a challenge to find companies that had moved to 4-day workweeks. They were out there, but they tended
“we realized people needed more — something structural that they didn’t have to ask for”
Soo Youn at the Washington Post writes about what companies are doing to deal with (or better yet, head off) employee burnout as they try to get back
4-day week campaign
For the last couple months I've been working on a project that went live this week: a new campaign to build interest in the 4-day week. It's now
Toyota Gothenburg and the shorter (blue collar) workweek
One of the questions people regularly ask about the 4-day week is whether it's just something that professional and creatives can implement, or whether care workers, blue collar
Marketplace talks about the 4-day week
I’m briefly on an NPR Marketplace segment about the 4-day week. A shortened workweek could become more common in industries where competition for talent is intense, said Alex
Spanish telco Telefonica will trial 4-day week in fall 2021
On the heels of the Valencia proposal to trial a 4-day week, Spanish phone company Telefonica now says it will trial a 4-day week from October to December,
“If you want to move to a 32h week and still be successful, you’ll have to master one thing first:” Wildbit’s 4-day week
Wildbit is a Philadelphia-based software firm that implemented that a 4-day week in 2017; it's one of the companies I talk about in SHORTER, after I spent some
Amy Porterfield talks about trialing a 4-day week
Amy Porterfield is an ecommerce and online marketing expert, and a real blue-flame thinker about small business: her work helped me see (from my hyper-scale, growth-at-all-costs Silicon Valley perch)
Talking about the 4-day week on KQED Forum
I was on KQED's Forum today, talking about the 4-day week. There was quite the all-star lineup: Charlotte Lockhart, Leena Yousefi (whose law firm YLaw is trialing a