{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"5-Hour Formula: Live More, Work Less","title":"[#15] Juliet Schor: The Evidence for the 4-Day Workweek","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2921,"description":"Economist and sociologist Dr. Juliet Schor has spent decades studying working time, overwork, consumer culture, and now the global movement toward shorter workweeks. In this conversation, we unpack what the data actually shows about four-day weeks: productivity, well-being, turnover, carbon emissions, and the business case for working less.Juliet shares stories from companies and public organizations around the world—from advertising agencies and restaurants to nurses, startups, and local governments, showing how shorter hours can reduce burnout, improve quality, and save money even when output doesn’t “go up.” She also explains why shorter hours act as a forcing function for innovation, how they enable lower-carbon lifestyles, and why we’ve been stuck at a five-day week for 85 years.We connect the research to our nine-year experiment with a 5-hour workday, and explore what might be possible with a future 4-day, reduced-hour workweek.Why listenLearn what the research actually says about four-day workweeks—beyond hype, headlines, and opinions.Hear how companies in high-stress sectors like healthcare, restaurants, and advertising are using shorter hours to cut burnout, improve quality, and reduce turnover.Understand the difference between 100-80-100 and 100-80-80 models—and why not every success story is about “doing more with less.”See how shorter workweeks can reduce carbon emissions and enable more sustainable lifestyles through behavior change, not just fewer commutes.Discover why shorter hours act as a forcing mechanism that breaks Parkinson’s Law and drives better processes, documentation, and focus.Get ideas for how employees, managers, and leaders can start the conversation about work-time reduction inside their own organizations.Highlights & timestamps 00:17 – Welcome to Five Hour FormulaAlex frames the five-hour workday experiment and introduces Juliet as a leading researcher on shorter workweeks.00:33 – Who is Dr. Juliet Schor?Juliet’s background as an...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6m48G-V7mTSG23RDk3v1Jtm6DEH8oOGINFNqvUg9Fmw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lYTUx/NzUzYzIxYmFkODNi/MzE1YTE5NDc4NGQz/NDI1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}