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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

By |2021-12-22T15:53:42-08:00July 9th, 2021|4-day workweek, Business and work, Future, Pandemic, Top post, Writing|Comments Off on The 4-day week on TED Ideas

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

By |2021-07-26T10:37:28-07:00November 19th, 2020|4-day workweek, Business and work, Future, Media, Podcast, SHORTER|Comments Off on KCRA and the future of the office

Talking about the 4-day week on Better Life Lab’s “Crisis Conversations”

Last Friday I joined panel featuring Brigid Schulte, Manar Morales (Diversity and Flexibility Alliance President & CEO), Richard Gegick (leader of the Restaurant Opportunities Center), and Kendra Goodenough

Talking about the 4-day week on TVO’s The Agenda

I’m on today’s broadcast of The Agenda, the Toronto news show, talking about the 4-day week.  Sorry that the video is so small-- I wasn't able to

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

Cal Newport on shorter working hours and the future of knowledge work

Knowledge workers of the world, unplug! Cal Newport has a piece in the New York Times about Lasse Rheingans, shorter working hours, and the future of work. Newport

By |2020-01-16T11:34:48-08:00November 8th, 2019|4-day workweek, Arts and Culture, Business and work, Future|Comments Off on Cal Newport on shorter working hours and the future of knowledge work

“the future belongs to the four-day week as the foundation of the social labor contract”

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently gave a speech that included mention of a four-day week: "It's quite possible that the future belongs to the four-day week as

By |2021-11-20T23:14:07-08:00June 12th, 2019|4-day workweek, Future, SHORTER|Comments Off on “the future belongs to the four-day week as the foundation of the social labor contract”
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