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“I was also building a completely new frame of reference from the moment I first asked myself whether there might be an alternative to a 5 day week”
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“I was also building a completely new frame of reference from the moment I first asked myself whether there might be an alternative to a 5 day week”

4-day workweek, Advice

“I was also building a completely new frame of reference from the moment I first asked myself whether there might be an alternative to a 5 day week”

British lawyer Emma Haywood has an essay about "The 4 day mindset: Why a 4 day week is more than just an alternative working schedule" that is really

By askpang|2022-08-12T10:26:30-07:00August 12th, 2022|4-day workweek, Advice|Comments Off

4-day week and the climate
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4-day week and the climate

4-day workweek, Business and work, Science

4-day week and the climate

Allyson Chiu writes in the Washington Post about "How a four-day workweek could be better for the climate:" Reducing the workweek to four days could have a climate

By askpang|2022-08-09T11:50:18-07:00August 9th, 2022|4-day workweek, Business and work, Science|Comments Off

It works in practice, but does it work in theory? A new critique of the 4-day week
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It works in practice, but does it work in theory? A new critique of the 4-day week

4-day workweek, Business and work

It works in practice, but does it work in theory? A new critique of the 4-day week

Economist Wim Naudé has just published an article in The Conversation listing "Five reasons why the four-day week won't work." Unfortunately, it's one of those economics pieces that

By askpang|2022-08-05T12:21:53-07:00August 5th, 2022|4-day workweek, Business and work|Comments Off

Early results from the 4 Day Week Global trials
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Early results from the 4 Day Week Global trials

4 Day Week Global, 4-day workweek, Business and work

Early results from the 4 Day Week Global trials

We're beginning to get preliminary results of the 4 Day Week Global trial running in Ireland and the UK. Not surprisingly (to me), the news is positive. Anna

By askpang|2022-08-05T11:05:24-07:00August 5th, 2022|4 Day Week Global, 4-day workweek, Business and work|Comments Off

Shorter workweek and Singapore
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Shorter workweek and Singapore

4-day workweek, Advice, Business and work, Media, SHORTER

Shorter workweek and Singapore

A new episode of the Singapore Straits Times' Work Talk Podcast takes on the 4-day week. I talk about it along with "Ms Louisa Lee, CEO of DP

By askpang|2022-08-01T07:31:53-07:00August 1st, 2022|4-day workweek, Advice, Business and work, Media, SHORTER|Comments Off

How to convince your boss to trial a 4-day week
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How to convince your boss to trial a 4-day week

4-day workweek, Advice, Business and work, Media

How to convince your boss to trial a 4-day week

I forgot to post about this when it came out a few weeks ago, but MSNBC ran a piece about "how to convince your boss to trial a

By askpang|2022-07-24T11:30:36-07:00July 23rd, 2022|4-day workweek, Advice, Business and work, Media|Comments Off

Talking about the 4-day week on Arirang TV
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Talking about the 4-day week on Arirang TV

4-day workweek, Media

Talking about the 4-day week on Arirang TV

Here I am talking about the 4-day week on Arirang News, a South Korean English-language TV channel. If I'm lucky it'll autoplay from the start of the interview,

By askpang|2022-07-15T15:15:57-07:00July 15th, 2022|4-day workweek, Media|Comments Off

Emma Lewzey and Blue Sky Philanthropy on the 4-day week
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Emma Lewzey and Blue Sky Philanthropy on the 4-day week

4-day workweek, Advice, Business and work, Companies

Emma Lewzey and Blue Sky Philanthropy on the 4-day week

Emma Lewzey at Blue Sky Philanthropy did a Facebook Live presentation about the 4-day week. Despite my comments (which I don't think are visible in the video), she

By askpang|2022-07-13T10:48:46-07:00July 13th, 2022|4-day workweek, Advice, Business and work, Companies|Comments Off

The Fields Medalist who works three hours a day
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The Fields Medalist who works three hours a day

Creativity, REST

The Fields Medalist who works three hours a day

Quanta Magazine has a profile of Princeton mathematician and Fields Medalist June Huh, who “does about three hours of focused work” per day— a number in line with

By askpang|2022-07-05T15:45:41-07:00July 5th, 2022|Creativity, REST|Comments Off

Juliet Schor at TED: “The 4-day week is a downpayment on a new way to live and work”
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Juliet Schor at TED: “The 4-day week is a downpayment on a new way to live and work”

4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies, Current Affairs, Top post

Juliet Schor at TED: “The 4-day week is a downpayment on a new way to live and work”

Juliet Schor's TED talk about the 4-day week is now online: I've been studying work since the 1980s, and I've never seen anything like what's happening today. Pandemic-fueled

By askpang|2022-05-11T10:05:20-07:00May 11th, 2022|4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies, Current Affairs, Top post|Comments Off

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Strategy and Rest is a Silicon Valley-based consulting company. Through in-person and virtual workshops, keynotes, consulting, and online courses, we help companies discover the power of deliberate rest, shorten working hours, and manage digital distraction.