Talking about the 4-day week on RTVI
Wednesday I was on RTVI, a Russian-language network, talking about the 4-day week. I don’t see an embed code, but if you want to brush up on your
The 4-day week on TED Ideas
My latest article about the 4-day week is now out on the TED Ideas Web site. In recent decades, globalization, outsourcing, automation, digitization and, most recently, the rise
Busy media day for the 4-day week
In the wake of the launch of the 4-day week campaign (go sign up if you haven’t already), and the news about the Iceland trial, attention for the
“the push for a four-day workweek suggests we do have other things we value”
Washington Post writer Christine Emba makes the case that we should push for a 4-day workweek not because it will make us better producers, but because it will
Government experimentation with shorter hours
Iceland is getting a ton of coverage for its implementation of a shorter workweek for public sector workers, but it's worth noting that a lot of other countries
Talking about the 4-day week on Marketplace
I'm on today's Marketplace, talking about the 4-day week. It's just a single sentence, but still... This is actually my third appearance on Marketplace: I was on in
Iceland is conducting the world’s biggest experiment in shorter working hours
Three years ago when I started writing SHORTER, it was a challenge to find companies that had moved to 4-day workweeks. They were out there, but they tended
4-day week campaign
For the last couple months I've been working on a project that went live this week: a new campaign to build interest in the 4-day week. It's now
4-day week proposal in Chile
In the past few months I've seen a flurry of interest in the 4-day week among politicians in a number of countries: Canada's Justin Trudeau, Nicola Sturgeon in
Toyota Gothenburg and the shorter (blue collar) workweek
One of the questions people regularly ask about the 4-day week is whether it's just something that professional and creatives can implement, or whether care workers, blue collar