Busy media day for the 4-day week
In the wake of the launch of the 4-day week campaign (go sign up if you haven’t already), and the news about the Iceland trial, attention for the
“the push for a four-day workweek suggests we do have other things we value”
Washington Post writer Christine Emba makes the case that we should push for a 4-day workweek not because it will make us better producers, but because it will
Government experimentation with shorter hours
Iceland is getting a ton of coverage for its implementation of a shorter workweek for public sector workers, but it's worth noting that a lot of other countries
Talking about the 4-day week on Marketplace
I'm on today's Marketplace, talking about the 4-day week. It's just a single sentence, but still... This is actually my third appearance on Marketplace: I was on in
Iceland is conducting the world’s biggest experiment in shorter working hours
Three years ago when I started writing SHORTER, it was a challenge to find companies that had moved to 4-day workweeks. They were out there, but they tended
“we realized people needed more — something structural that they didn’t have to ask for”
Soo Youn at the Washington Post writes about what companies are doing to deal with (or better yet, head off) employee burnout as they try to get back
4-day week campaign
For the last couple months I've been working on a project that went live this week: a new campaign to build interest in the 4-day week. It's now
4-day week proposal in Chile
In the past few months I've seen a flurry of interest in the 4-day week among politicians in a number of countries: Canada's Justin Trudeau, Nicola Sturgeon in
Toyota Gothenburg and the shorter (blue collar) workweek
One of the questions people regularly ask about the 4-day week is whether it's just something that professional and creatives can implement, or whether care workers, blue collar
Marketplace talks about the 4-day week
I’m briefly on an NPR Marketplace segment about the 4-day week. A shortened workweek could become more common in industries where competition for talent is intense, said Alex