September 08, 2024 Why a 4-day workweek sets up an uneven playing field for workers While workers in well-paid jobs have bargaining leverage to assert their legal rights, others in lower-paid jobs face minimal protection and risk direct exploitation in a four-day working week. BY The Conversation The U.K. government has announced a proposal that would … Continue reading Why a 4-day workweek sets up an uneven playing field for workers
September 02, 2024 Why Japan wants its citizens to try a 4-day workweek The government launched a ‘work style reform’ campaign that promotes shorter hours and other flexible arrangements along with overtime limits and paid annual leave. BY Associated Press Japan, a nation so hardworking its language has a term for literally working oneself to death, … Continue reading Why Japan wants its citizens to try a 4-day workweek
July 03, 2024 These industries might benefit most from a 4-day workweek Can a 32-hour workweek be implemented in only certain types of white-collar jobs, or can it work in all industries? BY Nicole Gull McElroy When architecture firm BSB Design shifted to a 32-hour, four-day workweek in 2021, Dan Swift, the company’s president and CEO, … Continue reading These industries might benefit most from a 4-day workweek
May 31, 2024 Exos CEO Sarah Robb O’Hagan believes a four-day workweek will soon be the norm The CEO of fitness and coaching firm Exos talks burnout and embracing failure on the latest episode of the ‘Rapid Response’ podcast. BY Robert Safian As a slew of execs embrace the quest to stay as young and fit … Continue reading Exos CEO Sarah Robb O’Hagan believes a four-day workweek will soon be the norm
May 19, 2024 What’s the future of the 32-hour and 4-day workweek? How companies are rejiggering the workweek to offer 4-day and 32-hour options. BY Lydia Dishman Welcome to Work Smarter, Fast Company‘s newsletter on career, leadership, and productivity advice. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. There has been a lot of buzz in … Continue reading What’s the future of the 32-hour and 4-day workweek?
May 25, 2024 Why your company should embrace the four-day workweek At Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Summit, these execs from 4 Day Week Global, Kickstarter, and Public Policy Lab made a solid case for the four-day workweek. BY Claire Zhao The push for a four-day workweek has recently surged in popularity, spearheaded by Sen. Bernie … Continue reading Why your company should embrace the four-day workweek
May 13, 2024 This is how we finally end the 40-hour, 5-day workweek California Congressperson Mark Takano, who introduced a 32-hour workweek bill, discusses how we can transform the way we think about our work schedules. BY Kathleen Davis For many people, the biggest problem with work isn’t anything about the job itself; it’s how the … Continue reading This is how we finally end the 40-hour, 5-day workweek
By Alex Daly and Ally Bruschi January 25, 2024 As leaders, the first question we always get when we tell people that we successfully adopted a 4-day workweek at our company is: How did you measure performance and success? As client services professionals in PR, we are used to the KPI question. We get … Continue reading How we found a version of a 4-day workweek that fits our company
By Kathleen Davis November 27, 2023 I often think about the Maggie Smith line in Downton Abbey “What is a weekend?” Being a Countess, she didn’t know what a weekend was because she had no workweek. But there was a time in the not so distant past when working Americans also had never heard … Continue reading Forget the 4-day workweek. We should be talking about the 5-day, 32-hour week instead
By Jared Lindzon In early 2022, business was booming for digital publisher Alpha Brand Media, and staff were struggling to keep up with demand. “We were going through classic growing pains, needing to scale the company’s infrastructure and workflows and processes and policies, and it was quite disruptive,” recalls CEO Jenise Uehara. “It was … Continue reading So you’ve decided to implement a 4-day workweek. Now what?
