Danish law firms are experimenting with shorter weeks and flexible hours
If you're familiar at all with legal practice, you know that billable hours are the great driver of professional life. Lawyers measure their billable time in increments as
3-day workweek at KKI Plast
The coronavirus has created lots of challenges for companies that want to remain open but operate safely. Anyone who’s been to a store or office in recent months
Pernille Garde Abilgaard’s TEDx Copenhagen talk on the 4-day week
Danish journalist and business consultant Pernille Garde Abildgaard, author of the book The Secret of the 4-Day Week, spoke at TEDx Copenhagen Salon about "The secret of the
“we have to detach money from time”
You're probably familiar with books like David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and Peter Fleming's The Death of Homo Economicus, which talk about how in the modern economy, the problems
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 man who broke the calendar: About IIH Nordic and its 4-day week
One of the companies I write about in SHORTER (US | UK) is IIH Nordic, a Copenhagen-based data marketing firm that implemented, and has become a Nordic model for, a
This is not bike parking this is art
Spotted at Papirøen: Art can be confusing, I suppose.
Back in Copenhagen
During my travels in Europe week before last, I spent a couple days in Copenhagen, which is one of my favorite cities. I've not been back there in
Courtyards in Aarhus
I spent a lot of time noticing courtyards when I was in Aarhus. In the courtyard of the hotel The old city is full of buildings that have
Hotel Guldsmeden
I'm at the Hotel Guldsmeden, a cool old-fashioned hotel with lots of twisty, curvy passages that all look alike-- kind of like that old computer game. > Pictures