UK companies embrace the four-day workweek in a new era for work-life balance
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A growing movement is reshaping the traditional workweek in the UK, with two hundred companies permanently adopting a four-day workweek for all employees—without cutting pay. This landmark shift, which benefits more than 5,000 workers, highlights a Read More...
These solar-powered meeting pods take remote work to a whole new level
As the pandemic has normalized remote work, designers are coming up with innovative solutions that could change the future of work for the better. In a bid to achieve exactly that, furniture studio Duffy London has designed the Minka Solar Pod. The project is essentially an outdoor office pod that Read More...
Future of work: Salesforce declares the end of the 9-to-5 workday
As many people have been asked to work from home during the pandemic to prevent the spread of the virus, a good number of companies have decided to make it a permanent thing and give their employees more flexibility to choose when and where they work from. Now, the computing company Salesforce is Read More...
Unilever to shift its New Zealand office to a four-day workweek
It seems that the four-day workweek movement is finally getting some real traction, with global consumer goods giant Unilever becoming the latest major corporation to make an attempt at reshaping the future of work. The company announced that beginning of next week, all of its New Zealand Read More...
Work from home is here to stay for this Fortune 100 company
Is working from home driving you nuts, or are you someone who is thriving taking morning meetings on the couch? For one Fortune 100 company, working from home is going so well that they plan to keep doing it, even after COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. Nationwide, the privately-held insurance Read More...