Danish law firms are experimenting with shorter weeks and flexible hours
If you're familiar at all with legal practice, you know that billable hours are the great driver of professional life. Lawyers measure their billable time in increments as
KCRA and the future of the office
I was on KCRA’s “Press Play” yesterday, talking with Madeleine Brand about the 40-hour week, remote work during COVID, and the future of work. This write-up by Amy
Job Sharing and Beyond podcast
I’m on the latest episode of the podcast Job Sharing and Beyond, talking with Karin Tischler, the founder of Emily’s Path Consulting, about Shorter, flexible work, COVID-19, and
“achieving more by working less” creates “substantial improvement over time”
I talk about, well a little bit of everything, on the Text Request podcast: You want everything your team does to have the largest impact possible. Working long
My writings on 4-day weeks, the pandemic, and reopening
I've been doing a lot of writing and speaking about how the 4-day week can play a role in helping companies reopen safely and more quickly, and give
Temporary 4-day weeks: Shopify and the NBA
There are a number of companies that have discovered during the pandemic that they could permanently shift to a 4-day week (I wrote about some of them for
Femma’s report on its 30-hour week
The Belgian research and advocacy group Femma spent 2019 working a 30-hour week, and has just released a report in English [pdf] talking about their experience. One of
Talking about routines in the Financial Times
The Financial Times recently launched a new series on "Rebooting the Workplace," which consists of essays by various invited experts on different aspects of the future of work
The “Someday Experiment” at Polar: Implementing an intentional 4-day week
The advertising technology company Polar, which makes the popular ad platform Social Disply, recently moved to a 4-day week, as part of what CEO Kunal Gupta calls The
Medtronic and the shorter workweek
The Asia-Pacific division of Medtronic, the world’s biggest medical device maker, is pioneering a new way to shorten working hours. In most of the companies I discuss in