Brigid Schulte points out A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research about “Gender Inequality, Work Hours, and the Future of Work:” Technological innovation through machine
I'm going back to London in February to speak at Life Lessons, a conference at the Barbican! Wellbeing isn't about lycra and fad diets. Its aim is not
Cockroach Labs, where they have a 4-day week Business Insider has another article about the 4-day workweek that casts shorter working hours (not incorrectly) as efforts to give
The Times (not the New York one, the other one) reports on a study about queens and conquest: In 1588 Queen Elizabeth I promised that if the Spanish
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
In the companies I've been studying that have moved to 4-day weeks, unions have played little or no role in setting working hour or working conditions. But unions
In Europe, stock markets and other trading floors are open from 8 am to 4:30 pm, one of the longest trading days in the world. Now, two "professional
In the UK, political parties are starting to argue about the merits and economics of the 4-day workweek as they head into a general election. The Labour Party,
I'll be talking about REST and SHORTER at Silicon Foundry in San Francisco on December 4. The talk will range cross my last three books, THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION,
On Tuesday I went to New York to meet with SHORTER'S American editor and publicity team about the release of the book. (Fortunately, events like the UK general
