Talking about the workweek on Newsy
A little while ago I was interviewed about the 4-day week, why the 5-day week exists, and they benefits of working less. I don't see an embed for
“I was also building a completely new frame of reference from the moment I first asked myself whether there might be an alternative to a 5 day week” Gallery“I was also building a completely new frame of reference from the moment I first asked myself whether there might be an alternative to a 5 day week”
“I was also building a completely new frame of reference from the moment I first asked myself whether there might be an alternative to a 5 day week”
British lawyer Emma Haywood has an essay about "The 4 day mindset: Why a 4 day week is more than just an alternative working schedule" that is really
4-day week and the climate
Allyson Chiu writes in the Washington Post about "How a four-day workweek could be better for the climate:" Reducing the workweek to four days could have a climate
It works in practice, but does it work in theory? A new critique of the 4-day week
Economist Wim Naudé has just published an article in The Conversation listing "Five reasons why the four-day week won't work." Unfortunately, it's one of those economics pieces that
Early results from the 4 Day Week Global trials
We're beginning to get preliminary results of the 4 Day Week Global trial running in Ireland and the UK. Not surprisingly (to me), the news is positive. Anna
Shorter workweek and Singapore
A new episode of the Singapore Straits Times' Work Talk Podcast takes on the 4-day week. I talk about it along with "Ms Louisa Lee, CEO of DP
How to convince your boss to trial a 4-day week
I forgot to post about this when it came out a few weeks ago, but MSNBC ran a piece about "how to convince your boss to trial a
Talking about the 4-day week on Arirang TV
Here I am talking about the 4-day week on Arirang News, a South Korean English-language TV channel. If I'm lucky it'll autoplay from the start of the interview,
Emma Lewzey and Blue Sky Philanthropy on the 4-day week
Emma Lewzey at Blue Sky Philanthropy did a Facebook Live presentation about the 4-day week. Despite my comments (which I don't think are visible in the video), she
Juliet Schor at TED: “The 4-day week is a downpayment on a new way to live and work”
Juliet Schor's TED talk about the 4-day week is now online: I've been studying work since the 1980s, and I've never seen anything like what's happening today. Pandemic-fueled