The long run is a four-day workweek

Jared Lindzon’s new guide says the way forward for work is extra productive workers working fewer days.

Lots of you might be simply beginning to swing again to work after a restful vacation break. And everyone knows that which means: conferences, emails, conferences that might have been emails, and extra conferences.

Perhaps you’re employed a ‘normal’ 9 to five. Maybe you’re a 9/9/6 hustle tradition edge lord. However what if there was a greater method?

“The workweek will proceed till morale improves.”

Becoming a member of me on The BetaKit Podcast is Jared Lindzon, freelance BetaKitten and co-author of Do Extra in 4: Why It’s Time for a Shorter Workweek, which argues that the way forward for work might be predicated on workers being extra productive working fewer days.

How is that purported to occur when boomers nonetheless run the world, Gen Z remains to be Gen Z, and AI is coming for all of our jobs anyway?

Fortunately, Jared and co-author Joe O’Connor have achieved the work, and he comes ready to reply the above query and plenty of extra on the podcast. One of many greatest ones is how precisely a four-day workweek is best. From my understanding post-podcast, it’s much less in regards to the variety of days labored and extra in regards to the alternative to assemble a brand new method to work that displays fashionable considerations—and sure, that features using AI.

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Jared additionally doesn’t current this as a panacea to all of the ills of modernity. In truth, he’s very clear {that a} four-day workweek is an incentive, not a present, and it comes with productiveness strings hooked up.

The workweek will proceed till morale improves. Is that this what the way forward for work appears like? Let’s dig in.

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