A quick update, and more news soon
I realize I've posted very little in the last few weeks (though I've posted lots of labrador pictures), because I've been doing a lot on the next book.
Frans Johanssen on the Starbucks epiphany
Frans Johansson, author of The Click Moment and The Medici Effect, on business travel and Howard Schultz's discovery of coffee culture: I'm planning a couple trips myself, and
Why do we talk about the possibility of 4-day weeks, rather than their reality?
This morning I ran across this piece on the Web site of English boutique recruitment consultancy Mitchell Adam: The Four-Day Working Week: Could It Work?Today, many people will
“In my experience, it is only the over-fifties who really know what they’re doing”
Rory Sutherland makes a good point about one of the benefits of shorter hours in this Spectator article, "John McDonnell’s right – the four-day week could work:" Trust
The Women Who Made Male Astronomers’ Ambitions Possible
A nice, unexpected piece by Erin Blakemore in JSTOR Daily about "The Women Who Made Male Astronomers' Ambitions Possible," which talks about my research on Elizabeth Campbell and
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences proposes a 4-day, 36-hour workweek
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
「休みは仕事の戦略だ」: Talking about rest in Asahi Globe
The Asahi Globe, the Asahi Shinbun’s weekend magazine, has a special section on rest that features a profile of me, or at least a picture of me sleeping
Listening to “A 4-Day Week: The Time is Now!” Session at The World Transformed
In September, there was an interesting session on the four-day week at The World Transformed, an event in Liverpool that sounds like a fringe festival paralleling the UK
“We converted 20% less work into 50% more weekend:” Australian company Icelab’s four-day workweek
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
Is the biggest company experimenting with 30-hour weeks in… Japan?
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