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“Japan has a latent ability to create flexible work environments and workstyles:” The Liberal Democratic Party discusses a 4-day week

Yesterday I noticed in an article on the Deutsche Welle Web site on the 4-day week, that "Kuniko Inoguchi, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party," put

By |2021-07-26T10:37:28-07:00February 8th, 2021|4-day workweek, Politics and Policy|1 Comment

Japanese companies are implementing 4-day weeks as they reopen

Recently I made the case in The Atlantic that companies should adopt a 4-day week in order to make offices and workplaces safer, and to help companies develop

By |2020-11-19T22:58:38-08:00May 26th, 2020|4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies, Current Affairs, Politics and Policy, SHORTER|Comments Off on Japanese companies are implementing 4-day weeks as they reopen

Planet Money on “Japan’s Worker Shortage” and working hours

NPR’s Planet Money has a piece on efforts in Japan to allow people to work less: Some companies in Japan are going bankrupt because of the country's critical

By |2021-11-20T23:12:23-08:00July 12th, 2019|4-day workweek, Business and work, Politics and Policy, SHORTER|Comments Off on Planet Money on “Japan’s Worker Shortage” and working hours

“Japanese companies are beginning to embrace… the idea of a four-day workweek”

The Japan Times has an article about "Japanese companies warming up — slowly — to four-day workweek:" Once synonymous with long work hours, Japanese companies are beginning to

By |2021-11-20T23:17:44-08:00February 14th, 2019|4-day workweek, Business and work, SHORTER|Comments Off on “Japanese companies are beginning to embrace… the idea of a four-day workweek”

Greetings from Seoul, where I’m researching four-day weeks in Asian companies

I'm in Seoul for the next several days, doing some publicity stuff for REST (my dad tells me that the translation is really top-notch), and also doing some

By |2021-11-20T23:28:26-08:00January 19th, 2019|4-day workweek, SHORTER, Travel|3 Comments

Japanese edition of REST

My copies of the Japanese edition of REST arrived today. It's always really cool to see the foreign editions, and to imagine the book being read by people

By |2017-06-15T15:54:39-07:00June 15th, 2017|REST|Comments Off on Japanese edition of REST

Cover of Japanese edition of REST

The Japanese edition of REST will be out pretty soon (next Friday, I think), and the publisher sent me the cover and bookband. I don't know why bookbands

By |2017-05-19T09:47:16-07:00May 19th, 2017|REST|Comments Off on Cover of Japanese edition of REST
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