The 4 Day Revolution: Harder, better, faster, *shorter*
Eat Sleep Work Repeat
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
First of two new episodes on one theme. Until coronavirus swept the world the discussion of 2020 was about the future of work being based on working less to achieve more. There are two episodes on this today.
Firstly former guest Alex Soojung Kim Pang talks about the research celebrating the benefits of working shorter (his book on the same subject came out this week). He spent the last 3 years going into firms that are using shorter working to build retention, productivity and creativity. He gives a clear roadmap of why you should consider working shorter, what the pitfalls are and what you could see as the benefit.
The next episode looks at a case study of a company that went 4 days to improve productivity. What did they do and how did it work out?
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| 0:00.0 | This is eat sleep work repeat. I'm Bruce Dazley. Two episodes today both on the same theme of working less to achieve more. |
| 0:15.3 | It's interesting that 2020's big themes about the future work were about to be consumed |
| 0:20.1 | with discussions of four day weeks and shorter hours but now as the world is |
| 0:24.6 | really obsessed and rightfully so with the fallout of coronavirus a lot of the |
| 0:29.9 | chat is going towards remote working discussions is working |
| 0:33.0 | shorter or at home the future of sustainable working. |
| 0:36.8 | I was really struck on my visit to the US a couple of weeks ago |
| 0:39.7 | that the discussion about the future of work over there is resolutely just about working remotely. |
| 0:45.9 | I went into one place to do a talk and someone said to me, |
| 0:49.0 | we Americans love working, we don't want to work fewer hours. |
| 0:52.3 | I kind of don't believe that, but I do understand how it can feel like something that people feel is the consensus. |
| 0:59.0 | Today's two podcasts talk about working shorter from two different angles. |
| 1:03.4 | The first episode is a discussion with Alex Sue John Kim Pong, |
| 1:07.6 | former guest on the show. |
| 1:09.1 | He was previously talking about his book, Rest. And there are two podcasts because the second one is a case study of Andrew Barnes Company |
| 1:17.5 | Perpetual Guardian who switched to four days a week as a route to productivity growth. |
| 1:22.0 | What are the questions that they needed to ask? |
| 1:24.0 | What answers do you need back from your team? |
| 1:26.0 | What is the research saying? |
| 1:28.0 | Find out all of this on that podcast. |
| 1:30.0 | The critical questions for me of both Alex and of Andrew were practical ones and I've put most of the detail in this episode's PDF. |
| 1:39.0 | If you want that it's in the show note you can also find it on the website, eat sleep work repeat.com |
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