United Auto Workers strike for a 4-day week
The United Auto Workers has gone on strike against all three of the big automakers, and one of their demands is a 4-day week. Regardless of whether it
A 4-day week chatbot
I've been experimenting a lot with ChatGPT recently, and among other things have been playing around with ways of making use of my vast array of research notes,
“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
Compressed weeks, employee morale, and work-life balance: Evidence from Sharjah, UAE
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
Korean article about the 4-day week
For those who speak (or just understand) Korean, this new piece on TBS is worth watching:
Juliet Schor on the 4-day week: Companies “took this opportunity to totally rethink how they were doing things”
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
Bruce Daisley on lessons from the UK 4-day week trial
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
Hutch Games adopts a 4-day week!
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
“Slow Down A Little Bit:” Brooklyn USA on the 4-day week
The Brooklyn USA podcast takes a deep dive into the 4-day week. Historian Benjamin Hunnicutt has called the push for more free time the “forgotten American dream"; but
Financial Times Working It podcast series on the 4-day week
Over the last couple years the Financial Times has run some of the best articles on the 4-day week (as well as columns on the importance of rest