United Auto Workers strike for a 4-day week
The United Auto Workers has gone on strike against all three of the big automakers, and one of their demands is a 4-day week. Regardless of whether it
“Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition” and the 4-day week
In the January 2023 Harvard Business Review, Amy Edmonson and Mark Mortensen make the case for thinking more holistically and long-term about compensation and retaining talent. It’s a
Compressed weeks, employee morale, and work-life balance: Evidence from Sharjah, UAE
In January 2022, the United Arab Emirates officially adopted a 4.5-day week for its public sector and schools. (I wrote about the change here.) Private-sector companies were not
Retirement and the 4 day week
Part of the logic of the 4-day week is that it can help people avoid burnout, and make jobs for which they’re highly trained and emotionally invested more
Juliet Schor on the 4-day week: Companies “took this opportunity to totally rethink how they were doing things”
Juliet Schor talked to Michelle Peng in Time Magazine about the 4-day week trials, and the results she and her team at Boston College are seeing. Of course
Bruce Daisley on lessons from the UK 4-day week trial
Bestselling business writer Bruce Daisley has a piece about “5 Things We Learned from the 4-Day Week Trials.” What were those five things? Firms who implemented the 4
Hutch Games adopts a 4-day week!
London-based mobile games company Hutch just announced on their Web site that after participating in the 4 Day Week Global-organized trial for UK companies, they are making their
Financial Times Working It podcast series on the 4-day week
Over the last couple years the Financial Times has run some of the best articles on the 4-day week (as well as columns on the importance of rest
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