No, Finland is not adopting a 4-day week just yet
In the last few days I read several articles (like this one in Quartz, this one in the Daily Mail, and this one in the Guardian) proclaiming that
The politics of the 4-day workweek in the UK
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,
Danish municipality trialing a 4-day week
Odsherred Municipality, a rural peninsula an hour north of Copenhagen, is trialing a 4-day week, according to The Local: The northwest Zealand municipality’s 300-strong staff is to be
The Labour Party talks about four-day weeks
https://flic.kr/p/2c1h4zT The City, from the 6th floor of Shoreditch House While I was in England, interviewing companies about how they implement and manage their four-day weeks, the UK's
Shortening working hours and unintended consequences:
Koreans have had some of the longest working hours in the developed world: longer than the workaholic United States, Europe, and even Japan (which is often Korea's benchmark
Finland’s basic income experiment ends
Finland has been running a limited experiment with Universal Basic Income, and has decided to pull the plug. The experiment with so-called universal basic income has captured global
Working hours in South Korea are coming down
The Guardian reports that the South Korean government has voted to cut back the 'inhumanely long' 68-hour working week: Employees in one of the most overworked countries in
Sleep deprivation and Eurozone creditor negotiations
Amid its constant, nonstop (and pretty good) coverage of the Greek crisis, the Guardian ran a piece today about the effects of sleep deprivation on decision-making. "The Greek
Germany considering guidelines to regulate off-hours email
Last year the German Ministry of Labor set new guidelines to reduce the amount of email sent after hours. As labor minister Ursula von der Leyen put it, "It's in the