Working better or working less? Yaëlle Amsallem and Emmanuelle Léon explain how the four-day week raises questions about the meaning we give to work.
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The COVID pandemic has exacerbated staff shortages in health care. We need to think about how we can better retain staff in this sector.
New research from Swinburne University suggests the four-day work week really can be win-win for workers and bosses.
Shorter working weeks bring economic benefits but also boost employee wellbeing.
The 1960s cartoon The Jetsons got three things about the future very wrong: the place of women in the workforce, how much we will work, and where we work.
Impressive as results from four-day work-week trials may appear, it’s still not clear if they would apply across the economy.
A four-day week boosts productivity and employee wellbeing, but it should be carefully planned and tailored to individual company needs.
Companies trialling four-day working weeks are considering making it permanent.
Many trials are taking place, but they need a reality check.
For most Australians working a standard full-time job, moving to a 4-day work week could occur in two stages.
Scotland, Ireland and Spain are among those trialling four-day weeks, but they’re not living in the real world.
Plus, the history of how Nairobi’s informal settlements got their names. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Iceland has trialled shorter working hours, but not a four-day week.
Our approach to work has had to adjust, so let’s change even more.
How can businesses overcome institutional hurdles to transition to a four-day week?
The four-day work week is an idea that should make it through the pandemic’s open policy window.
Trials show a four-day week really works. With economies desperate for recovery, now could be the perfect time to encourage it.
Lockdown throws our relationship with work into the spotlight.
All this talk of moving to a four-day week overlooks what might be a more important agenda.
Government legislation followed numerous campaigns in the 19th century for Saturday afternoons off.
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Adjunct Professor, Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Finance and co-Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Dean's Chair in Management and Māori Business, Massey University
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Dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
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Professor of the Future of Work, Newcastle University
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Associate professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Public Health, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Lecturer in Energy Storage Systems Dynamics, Lancaster University
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Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Urban Economics & Real Estate, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Economics, University of Salford
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Professor of Social and Cultural History, University of Portsmouth
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Director, Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada, Dalhousie University
