The work-from-home hybrid model ye seek
What about having a lottery every Friday on Zoom to see who’s coming into the office next week and what new friendships may be fostered? Continue Reading
Four Day Work Week
Could COVID scale the four-day work week?
The slow return to “normal” post-COVID seems to be helping the ol’ four-day work week gain some steam. Where do we stand on that? Continue Reading
Work week: How we view it is a joke
“I put in 88 last week, baby! I’m building the biz!” This is wrong on at least six different levels. Continue Reading
End the deification of the workaholic
The workaholic culture will never end, and especially among males — but we can at least reduce the ways we deify it and treat it as vain-glorious, no? Continue Reading
A 40-hour work week in 1950 = 11 hours of work in 2015
Take a look at this chart; I got it from here: Here’s the basic way to read that: a 40-hour/week worker in 1950 (far left of the chart) is essentially equivalent to an 11-hour/week worker in 2015. Phrased in a… Continue Reading
Why do we confuse “productivity” with “face-time” or “seat-time” at office jobs?
“Productivity” can be achieved anywhere by a person that cares about their work, so why do we pay so much attention to whether they’re in-office? Because everything comes back to control. Continue Reading
Why hasn’t the four-day work week caught on?
I’ve written about the idea of a four-day work week twice before — here and here — and I just wrote a piece for Vocoli (might be online tomorrow) on the same topic, so I’ve been thinking about it a lot… Continue Reading
Let’s say you shifted your organization to people working 4 days a week, 10 hours a day. Every weekend is a three-day weekend. Could this help employee engagement?
People already do this — the video above is an example, and there are pockets of big companies (like ESPN) where people can get 4 x 10 shifts as opposed to the standard 5 x 8 shift model for office/white-collar… Continue Reading