Companies that have done interesting things with shorter workweeks.
Almost all the organizations I've been looking at for the new book are for-profit companies. This is more or less by design, since I wanted places that had
One more example of a great restaurant that operates on a four-day week: Los Angeles' n/naka, profiled by Helen Rosner in this week's issue of The New Yorker:
Some of the world's best restaurants-- Noma and Relae in Copenhagen, Maison Baumé in California, Attica in Melbourne, Aizle in Edinburgh-- are shortening working hours for their chefs
Last fall I spent some time at The Mix, a London research agency, and interviewed several people about the four-day week. The Mix moved to a four-day week
One of the things about companies working shorter hours is that while they pay a lot of attention to tightening up their processes, making meetings more efficient, keeping
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
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
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
I’m still very much trying to track this down, but a friend pointed me to an article in Bloomberg about Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire who founded online clothing
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,
