Long-listed for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2021 'One of the most hopeful books I have read about the state of modern work' Brigid Schulte, bestselling author of Overwhelmed Forget the old concept of the 9-5. Companies around the world are redesigning the work week to increase efficiency, health and happiness in their workers.A growing number of businesses are shortening their working week to address problems with low productivity, poor mental health and unequal working opportunities. Workers are still paid the same salary for a four-day week and the results are revolutionary.In Shorter, bestselling author Alex Pang studies these trailblazing businesses where managers are reporting their teams to be:- More creative in their problem solving- Happier and with lower stress and anxiety and cases of burn out- More productivePang will reveal step by step, how they have gone about making these changes, the challenges and solutions and, most importantly, how you can do the same.
