The perils of loving your job
If you haven’t already read it, do go find Emi Nietfeld’s New York Times piece, "After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again.” It’s
4-day workweek grows in Korea
Kakao Games, the publisher of Guardian Tales and Paths of Exile and maker of social media app Kakao Talk, is moving its staff to a biweekly 4-day week.
How 4-day week companies are innovating technology use in knowledge work
Tim Harford as a piece in the Financial Times arguing that “Technology has turned back the clock on productivity.” It’s always good to see Harford writing about work
The benefits of a “fake commute”
A couple months ago I wrote an article for the Financial Times on the power of routines. Angela Haupt writes in The Washington Post about the invention of
Salesforce finishes gigantic tower, declares 9-to-5 workweek dead
This is something I wrote about in the Atlantic last year: that the pandemic and our grand experiments with working remotely would have a permanent effect on work
Unilever NZ’s 1-year trial of a 4-day week
Unilever is one of the world’s biggest consumer package goods companies, with brands like Lipton’s Tea and Dove soap and revenues in the tens of billions of dollars.
KCRA and the future of the office
I was on KCRA’s “Press Play” yesterday, talking with Madeleine Brand about the 40-hour week, remote work during COVID, and the future of work. This write-up by Amy
Articles and interviews on 4-day weeks, the pandemic, and reopening
I've been doing a lot of writing and speaking about how the 4-day week can play a role in helping companies reopen safely and more quickly, and give
Walking meetings and Zoom fatigue
Today I was doing a short podcast interview, and the subject of walking meetings came up. I have a whole chapter in REST about the creative benefits of
Temporary 4-day weeks: Shopify and the NBA
There are a number of companies that have discovered during the pandemic that they could permanently shift to a 4-day week (I wrote about some of them for