“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
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Skip to contentIn 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
There's a new edition of the late 19th-century classic The Right to Be Lazy, by socialist Paul Lafargue, and critic Lily Meyer writes about it in The Atlantic. Lafargue
From Benjamin Franklin, "On Luxury, Idleness, and Industry," in The Life of Benjamin Franklin (Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1852), p. 292: “It has been computed by some political
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
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
For those who speak (or just understand) Korean, this new piece on TBS is worth watching:
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
Edward Siegel writes in Forbes about a set of surveys that reveal the extent of burnout in workplaces worldwide: New surveys underscore an essential reality about today’s workplace
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
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