Meredith for Real: the curious introvert Ep. 313: Is a 4 Day Work Week Coming? Thursday = the NEW Friday! [REMASTERED]
Why do most of us work Mon-Fri? What would happen if Thursday was the new Friday?
Joe Sanok is a former psychologist & current author of Thursday is the New Friday. In this episode, he shares how the signs of a shorter work week (& longer weekends) have been popping up since the 1980’s.
In this episode he shares why a four-day work week is critical to society’s advancement, examples of places already implementing alternative schedules, how we can recalibrate our minds away from the industrialist mindset & how to discover your internal inclinations & sprint type.
This episode originally aired in two parts on March 28 & April 4, 2022.
If you like this episode, you’ll also like episode 202: IS TAKING A BREAK FROM WORK AN OPTION? MIDELIFE GAP YEAR
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00:00 — Why we work five days a week
01:00 — The myth of “normal” work
02:00 — What the pandemic taught us about time
03:00 — Real-world case studies: Iceland to Shopify
04:00 — Cooling empty buildings and saving millions
05:00 — The outdated industrial mindset
06:00 — Why “butts in seats” is a bad KPI
07:00 — The messy middle of change
08:00 — Are Americans too proud to adapt?
09:00 — The rebellious gene pool of the New World
10:00 — Schools as factories for future workers
11:00 — Teaching consent, confidence, and conversation
12:00 — Building emotional intelligence at home
13:00 — Parenting as part of societal recalibration
14:00 — Four-day weeks in “essential” jobs
15:00 — Testing, tweaking, and experimenting at work
16:00 — A shift from prescription to experimentation
17:00 — Who gets to work less? Privilege or possibility?
18:00 — The Walmart question: can everyone benefit?
19:00 — Rethinking weekends as recovery
20:00 — Are you working for an industrialist?
21:00 — Early signs of a four-day revolution
22:00 — The affair between Friday and the weekend
23:00 — Part Two: how to get things done by Thursday
24:00 — Why slowing down makes you sharper
25:00 — Parkinson’s Law and the myth of busy
26:00 — One-minute breaks that change everything
27:00 — Add one, remove one: weekend resets
28:00 — Toxic friends, grocery delivery & energy leaks
29:00 — Designing weekends for joy, not recovery
30:00 — Boundaries aren’t walls, they’re choices
31:00 — Hard and soft boundaries in real life
32:00 — Improv night as productivity tool
33:00 — From farm country to flow state
34:00 — The three internal inclinations
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