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- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
ideal solution, according to a new working paper, might be a compromise: Hybrid schedules in which employees roughly split their workweeks between the home and office appear to work best. These schedules allow for the right mix of... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
goes on. We have started to acknowledge these truths, and we’re toying with interventions, at both the individual level and the policy level to overcome time poverty. Some places are trying four-day workweeks (the United States, as with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
even a trip to Clinton, Iowa, was exciting to me. There was the lure of exploring a new place, going someplace I'd never been before. After those early years of 100-hour workweeks and countless trips to the Clintons of the world, travel -... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
Rose M. Knox
Knox built the largest gelatin distribution company in the U.S. After her husband’s death, Knox directed advertising to women, published recipes and financed constant research on gelatin usage. Through diversification efforts, Knox lessened the company’s dependence on... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
first minimum wage and 40-hour week History Of The 40-Hour Workweek More leaders are scrapping the 40-hour workweek That time America almost had a 30-hour workweek Why Do We... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
a long workweek it was and how extraordinarily controlling companies were in the early days before the labor movement." In subtle contrast, a striking 1933 portrait of a woman cotton warper at the Shelton Looms in Shelton, Connecticut, by... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
is described in a new book by Will Hutton, titled The World We're In (Little, Brown, 2002), from which excerpts (emailed to me by a U.K. manager) were published in England's Guardian newspaper last month. First, work less but work smarter. It's well known that the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
keeping workweek hours to reasonable levels. While she’s put in long hours in recent months, Thomas has tried to maintain that balance in her own life, having recently completed a six-year board term for Meals On Wheels of San Francisco.... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
long hours, most folks are being forced to do that with minimal compensation." Patrick Coomans placed some blame on "the weak job protection employees have in the US." Sid Mehta, who reminded us that Greece has the longest View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
the hair down — things that business frowns upon. After the workweek ends on Friday, music is what you jack up on your car stereo as you head over to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox humble those guys in pinstripes. Music and sports are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging... View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits and one-on-one meetings with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
sleeping with their smartphones. Simply put, people were "on" a great deal. We defined on as the time people spent working plus all the additional time they were available, monitoring their work in case something came up. And, we discovered that those whose... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
director at Lovejoy Advisors, shared her groundbreaking experience at McKinsey & Co., where she successfully proposed a four-day workweek at 80 percent pay after having her son. “It worked because I was good at what I do,” she said. Ten... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
workweek is filled with staff meetings, conferences, public events, negotiations with government officials about programs and their implementation, and donor-relations work with local embassies. She finds that all these various activities... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
a difference in the world," she says. "By that count, I definitely have it all.'" —Marguerite Rigoglioso How flexible is the worklplace? Forty-five percent of employees report having some say over their scheduled work hours. About 19 percent spend at least part of... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
the world's various workweek schedules can put a strain on a small start-up's staff. Second is managing the challenges (and opportunities) of context—that is, the different nations' political, regulatory, judicial, tax, and labor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
firms-triggered a global initiative that eventually spanned more than 900 BCG teams in 30 countries across five continents. These teams confronted their nonstop workweeks and changed the way they worked, becoming more efficient and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne