Mail Poet
4-Day Work Week / Mail Poet
These illustrations are about how MailPoet implemented the 4-day work week in 2016. Three years on, They’re still working happily with this rhythm and our business is growing.
While Tim Ferris’ 4-hour work week proved to be something of an illusion, 32 hours seemed more like a reasonable goal. They even considered a 6-hour work day at one point, but that seemed more of a constraint than a shorter week.
These days, the idea of having more free time is gaining traction in the press because: Over 90% of people are stressed at work, with a third on the verge of a burnout, possibly due to Workism, the religion of working hard.
- Over 90% of people are stressed at work, with a third on the verge of a burnout, possibly due to Workism, the religion of working hard.
- New technologies have made employees more productive, but also more available at all times.
- The pace of work is accelerating because the purchasing power is stalling.
- Millennials and Gen Z will probably work until they’re 70.
- Of the top 5 regrets of the dying, the number 2 is “having worked too hard.”
- It’s not a coincidence that yoga has grown to a $27 billion industry in the U.S. alone, not to mention the explosion of mindful apps like Headspace.
- HR directors are now renamed Chief Happiness Officers, and they now sit on the board and/or report back directly to the CEO like other VPs. Why is that?
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