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Scottish companies talk about the 4-day week and pandemic reopening

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00May 27th, 2020|4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies, SHORTER|

The Edinburgh Evening News spoke to the heads of two Scottish companies about the 4-day week and how it could help companies in the wake of the pandemic.

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Morgantown WV will begin a year-long trial of a 4-day week for government services

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00May 27th, 2020|4-day workweek, Companies, SHORTER|

Morgantown, a city of about 30,000 in West Virginia, will begin a year-long trial of the 4-day week starting July 6, right after the national holiday. The city's

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Japanese companies are implementing 4-day weeks as they reopen

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00May 26th, 2020|4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies, Current Affairs, Politics and Policy, SHORTER|

Recently I made the case in The Atlantic that companies should adopt a 4-day week in order to make offices and workplaces safer, and to help companies develop

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Why the “coronavirus is ‘accelerating’… a major shift toward the shorter workweek”

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00May 25th, 2020|4-day workweek, Business and work, Current Affairs, SHORTER, Top post|

Miriam Berger at The Washington Post asks, "Will the coronavirus pandemic open the door to a four-day workweek?" One interesting point was made by Henley Business School professor

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Nicola Sturgeon: “we should be encouraging employers to look at embracing… [t]hings like a four-day week”

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00May 21st, 2020|4-day workweek, SHORTER|

Last month I published an article in the Atlantic arguing that a 4-day week could help companies that had closed or shifted to remote operations during the pandemic

Huffington Post: With shorter hours, you “reduce the risk of people infecting each other” at work

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00May 12th, 2020|4-day workweek, Business and work, Media, Top post|

I'm quoted in the Huffington Post about the shorter workweek and its benefits for post-COVID businesses: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising employers to keep

The Atlantic: Making the case for reopening with a 4-day week

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00April 30th, 2020|Articles, Business and work, Current Affairs, Design, Health / Medicine / Wellness, Pandemic, Routines, SHORTER, Top post, Writing|

In today's Atlantic I have an essay arguing for reopening businesses on a 4-day week. The argument has two parts. First, offices have proved to be a significant

Penguin Connect: “Could this be the moment when the 9-5 as we know it dies?”

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00April 28th, 2020|Advice, Architecture and Environment, Business and work, Future, SHORTER, Work|

San Francisco in the lockdown I hardly know a writer who isn't either studying life under lockdown, or trying to write something about life after lockdown. Alice Vincent

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