Is less actually more?
Less toil is, more or less, good. Frances Coppola explains. We work less than we used to. That’s the key finding of the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS’s) review of …
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One office day a month boosts remote team performance
Remote work has become a permanent feature of labour markets. It can reduce commuting costs, expand flexibility, and help firms recruit workers from a wider talent pool (Barrero et al. …
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Effective Altruists Want to Engineer People to Sleep Less So They Can Work More
“Sleep is for the weak.” This expression is often tossed around jokingly. However, some effective altruists believe there is a moral imperative to get the human race to sleep less, …
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Four-day work week: How competitive is mental health?
The Brussels economic policy crowd seems to be positively inclined towards the idea of a four-day work week if a recent debate at the Brussels Economic Forum is anything to …
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Belgian Government Workers Can Now Ignore Their Boss After Work Hours
Bosses won’t be able contact employees outside of work hours except in exceptional circumstances, according to a proposed law for civil servants in Belgium. A “Right to Disconnect” will be introduced for …
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Holding it all together
Isaac Stanley explains why care is infrastructure. Biden’s much-discussed Infrastructure Bill eventually passed into law in October in the US. This followed extensive political wrangling between different wings of the …
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Productivity Does Not Explain Wages
By Blair Fix Does productivity explain income? I asked this question in a previous post. My answer was a bombastic no. In this post, I’ll dig deeper into the reasons that productivity doesn’t …
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Microsoft Japan’s four-day working week trial led to productivity improvements
Microsoft’s Japanese division found that reducing its working week to four days throughout the month of August caused an increase in productivity and a decrease in costs. Sales per employee rose …
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All is revealed
Alessandra Mezzadri explains how productivity barely covers anything in fast-fashion prices. In April this year, the UK multi-channel retail brand Missguided advertised the sale of a £1 bikini. It was …
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A twist in the old’s story
Productivity in the UK workforce is struggling to serve the nation’s growing number of pensioners. Frances Coppola asks: where is technology when you need it? On 5 June, two women born …
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