The life-changing magic of working ‘Four Days a Week’
Mackey & Schor: Illinois Public Media / Book: HarperCollinsPublishers
Economist and sociologist Juliet Schor has spent years documenting how Americans are overworked — but her latest research suggests a solution: shaving one day off the workweek, with no drop in pay or (in many cases) productivity.
“Stress falls, negative emotions fall, positive emotions rise," she told The 21st Show. "Exercise goes up, sleep goes up, sleep problems go down. All those work-family conflict and work-life conflict variables — those get much better.”
Schor has documented these findings in a book, Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter. She joins the program today.
For Further Reading
- Four Days a Week
- The Overworked American
- Wikipedia: Four-day workweek
- Schor's TED talk: The Case for a 4-Day Work Week
- 4 Day Week Global
- Juliet Schor's 2005 Media Matters interview on Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (Illinois Public Media)
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Juliet B. Schor, Ph.D.
Author, 'Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter"
Professor of Sociology, Boston College
