Ep. 313: Is a 4 Day Work Week Coming? Thursday = the NEW Friday! [REMASTERED]

Meredith for Real: the curious introvert

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05:00 — The outdated industrial mindset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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