Shorter
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Case studies of companies that moved to four-day weeks or six-hour days without cutting pay or output: how they redesigned meetings, focus time and communication to do it. The evidence is from early adopters, mostly small firms, and the redesign playbook is the useful part.
Read it if…
you run or influence a team and want the practical steps to work less.
Skip it if…
you want a personal productivity book; this is organisational.
Three things you will actually use
- Hours are an input; design for output.
- Shorter weeks force better processes.
- Focus time must be protected structurally.
Do this first
Read the chapter on meetings and cut one recurring meeting this week.
Our verdict
The four-day-week playbook.
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