Our modern work week of five days on and two days off is nothing more than an accident of history. Many organizations, and now even countries, are experimenting with what is most effective.
Scrum By Example – Overtime on a Scrum Team is an Unhealthy Sign
Resource Links:
- 4-day workweeks: the experiment that never stopped
- The 4-day work week: benefits, challenges, and how to run an experiment at your company (Streak)
- Buffer Is Moving to a 4-Day Workweek for the Rest of 2020
- Buffer: 4-Day Work Weeks: Results From 2020 and Our Plan for 2021
- Buffer: A Year And a Half Later, Here’s How The Four Day Workweek is Going
- Four-day work week trial in Iceland hailed an ‘overwhelming success’
- How We Serve Our Customers While Working a 4-Day Work Week
- Less is More: Why the Four-day Week is Rocking the world of Work
- Maybe Don’t Be So Smug About Your Long Hours at the Office
- The Maxwell Curve: Getting more production by working less!
- The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies
- What really happened in Iceland’s four-day week trial
- Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity
- Why your “new normal” workday should be 50% shorter (and how to make it work)
Mark Levison has been helping Scrum teams and organizations with Agile, Scrum and Kanban style approaches since 2001. From certified scrum master training to custom Agile courses, he has helped well over 8,000 individuals, earning him respect and top rated reviews as one of the pioneers within the industry, as well as a raft of certifications from the ScrumAlliance. Mark has been a speaker at various Agile Conferences for more than 20 years, and is a published Scrum author with eBooks as well as articles on InfoQ.com, ScrumAlliance.org an AgileAlliance.org.
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