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

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

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00May 21st, 2020|4-day workweek, SHORTER|5 Comments

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

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

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00May 12th, 2020|4-day workweek, Business and work, Media, Top post|1 Comment

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

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?”

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

Talking with Moira Gunn about creativity, rest, and shorter working hours on Tech Nation

A couple weeks ago I went up to San Francisco to do an interview with Moira Gunn for Tech Nation. It was, incredibly, my third appearance on the

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00April 13th, 2020|4-day workweek, Media, REST, SHORTER|Comments Off on Talking with Moira Gunn about creativity, rest, and shorter working hours on Tech Nation

Chief Learning Officer: Thinking through COVID-19 and the 4-day week

I've been thinking a good bit about the potential impact of COVID-19 (and the next pandemic or global emergency) on the future of work, and particularly whether the

By |2025-04-21T01:30:22-07:00March 23rd, 2020|4-day workweek, Business and work, Current Affairs, SHORTER|2 Comments
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