The 4-day week on TED Ideas
My latest article about the 4-day week is now out on the TED Ideas Web site. In recent decades, globalization, outsourcing, automation, digitization and, most recently, the rise
My review of “The Innovation Delusion“
Last year, my work took me to Korea, Azerbaijan (i.e., from one end of the Silk Road to the other) and the Netherlands, among other places. Baku, the
Articles and interviews on 4-day weeks, the pandemic, and reopening
I've been doing a lot of writing and speaking about how the 4-day week can play a role in helping companies reopen safely and more quickly, and give
Talking about routines in the Financial Times
The Financial Times recently launched a new series on "Rebooting the Workplace," which consists of essays by various invited experts on different aspects of the future of work
SHORTER in Korean!
SHORTER is now out in Korea, and also available (or just previewed?) on Google Books: There are few things cooler, and in some ways more puzzling, than your
My Fast Company article on the pandemic and 4-day week
I've got a new piece in Fast Company about how companies are moving from lockdown to 4-day weeks: Many businesses that moved to remote work in response to
The Atlantic: Making the case for reopening with a 4-day week
In today's Atlantic I have an essay arguing for reopening businesses on a 4-day week. The argument has two parts. First, offices have proved to be a significant
Corporate Life and the Life of the Mind
This essay is based on a talk on "Corporate Life and the Life of the Mind" that I gave at the Department of English at Princeton University on
Financial Times: Tories painted the “four-day week as this crazy socialist Venezuelan money tree hatched in some Soviet institute for economic disinformation” GalleryFinancial Times: Tories painted the “four-day week as this crazy socialist Venezuelan money tree hatched in some Soviet institute for economic disinformation”
Financial Times: Tories painted the “four-day week as this crazy socialist Venezuelan money tree hatched in some Soviet institute for economic disinformation”
Emma Jacobs in the Financial Times writes about SHORTER and the 4-day week. (It's the latest of a run of articles about SHORTER and REST in the Financial
My piece in the Guardian: “It’s time to end 9-5 office hours”
The Guardian (which has been really diligent about beating the drum for the 4-day week) ran an excerpt from SHORTER. They've written about my work in the past, so