How critiques of shorter working hours fall shorter
In the wake of the good news about Iceland’s public sector implementing a shorter workweek, a couple pieces have raised questions about the Iceland experience and 4-day workweek
“we realized people needed more — something structural that they didn’t have to ask for”
Soo Youn at the Washington Post writes about what companies are doing to deal with (or better yet, head off) employee burnout as they try to get back
Talking about the 4-day week on Better Life Lab’s “Crisis Conversations”
Last Friday I joined panel featuring Brigid Schulte, Manar Morales (Diversity and Flexibility Alliance President & CEO), Richard Gegick (leader of the Restaurant Opportunities Center), and Kendra Goodenough
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
Now U.S. labor unions are talking about a 4-day week
Unions in the UK have been talking about the 4-day week for some time, and now American unions are starting to take notice, Alexia Fernández Campbell reports in
Lasse Rheingans and the 5-Hour Workday at Rheingans Digital Enabler
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4zdsx-987466 And we're back! I'm afraid I was off for a couple weeks in England, doing some research and other interviews, then had lots of other things that
Aging and work
Last week I was on BBC Radio 4's morning show talking about REST and the need to change work and careers in a world where life expectancies are
Rest with Alex Pang, Episode 3: Spencer Kimball and Free Fridays at Cockroach Labs
In this episode I talk to Spencer Kimball, cofounder of Cockroach Labs , a startup that's reinventing how databases work. It's kind of technical, but fortunately Spencer does
In Squaw Valley
I’m at Squaw Valley for the Gruter Institute conference, giving a talk about the future of work. It’s a very intersting time, and not just because it’s up
‘The anthropologist’s role is to take things that seem natural and point out that they’re not”
In These Times interviews LSE professor David Graeber, author of the new book Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. As he explains it, "A bullshit job is a job that