Companies that have done interesting things with shorter workweeks.
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.
If you're familiar at all with legal practice, you know that billable hours are the great driver of professional life. Lawyers measure their billable time in increments as
The coronavirus has created lots of challenges for companies that want to remain open but operate safely. Anyone who’s been to a store or office in recent months
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
The Belgian research and advocacy group Femma spent 2019 working a 30-hour week, and has just released a report in English [pdf] talking about their experience. One of
The advertising technology company Polar, which makes the popular ad platform Social Display, recently moved to a 4-day week, as part of what CEO Kunal Gupta calls The
The Asia-Pacific division of Medtronic, the world’s biggest medical device maker, is pioneering a new way to shorten working hours. In most of the companies I discuss in
I recently wrote an article for Fast Company about companies that have adopted 4-day weeks during the pandemic. They’ve discovered during the lockdown that responding to the demands
UK supermarket giant Morrisons has announced that it will trial a 4-day workweek at its Bradford corporate HQ, in the north of England. The headquarters will actually be
The Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place at the University of Liverpool just published "Transitioning Towards a Four Day Working Week: Evidence Review and Insights From
