The Four-Day Work Week: Episode 1

Welcome to the first episode of The Tortoise - a podcast that digs deep into the power of slow. Brooke and Ben are back with the first full episode of The Tortoise, and it's a good'un. They start by talking about what you can expect from the ploddie, and then dig in to today's juicy topic: is a four-day work week feasible? This is a hot-button issue right now, as many companies around the world look to the results of a recent six-month four-day working week trial. Ben talks through his own experiment with trying to establish one, and the benefits and challenges of doing so as a self-employed person, while Brooke puts her idealist hat on and talks through a couple of interesting case studies. They also dig into the topic of hobbies - What are they? Do we need to try and improve at them? What happens if we want to turn a hobby into an income? - and discover that it's harder than we think to separate productivity from leisure. Brooke also gives an update on her 1% experiment and Ben talks about his Japanese lessons as his current form of continual improvement. Head over to The Tortoise for the Episode 1 show notes , and if you haven't already, make sure to

You can listen to The Four-Day Work Week: Episode 1 online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

The Four-Day Work Week: Episode 1 is an episode from The Slow Home Podcast with Brooke McAlary by Brooke McAlary.

This episode is 69:34 long.

This episode was published on Mar 22, 2023.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from The Slow Home Podcast with Brooke McAlary when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.