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Paddy Bettington on the political radicalism of shorter working hours

In the companies I've been studying that have moved to 4-day weeks, unions have played little or no role in setting working hour or working conditions. But unions

By |2020-01-16T11:35:15-08:00November 8th, 2019|4-day workweek, Politics and Policy|Comments Off on Paddy Bettington on the political radicalism of shorter working hours

“there is much to be said for Mr Pang’s conclusion that the belief in the power of the 80-hour week is piffle.”

Financial Times editor and columnist Pilita Clark has a piece that puts REST against the workaholic pose of the current government: Brexit, one of the most important events

By |2020-05-25T11:21:29-07:00September 1st, 2019|Business and work, Media, Politics and Policy, REST, SHORTER, UK|5 Comments

Planet Money on “Japan’s Worker Shortage” and working hours

NPR’s Planet Money has a piece on efforts in Japan to allow people to work less: Some companies in Japan are going bankrupt because of the country's critical

By |2021-11-20T23:12:23-08:00July 12th, 2019|4-day workweek, Business and work, Politics and Policy, SHORTER|Comments Off on Planet Money on “Japan’s Worker Shortage” and working hours
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