Load Shifting During the 4 Day Week SA
South Africans are dealing with load shedding. Yet another challenge for pilot participants, which I have opted to call “load shifting” instead. At the start of March 2023, pioneering companies piloting the four-day workweek were tasked with reducing the workday by eight hours, this during periods of intermittent energy supply. Load shedding is described as […]
The Secret World of Arrietty and the 4 Day Week SA
Again, I am able to draw some startling similarities between a Studio Ghibli classic and the 4 Day Week SA. The Secret World of Arrietty tells the tale of “The Borrowers”, 10cm-tall people who take only the things that humans won’t miss, in order to survive. For the purposes of this post, I will only […]
4 Day Week SA and the Case for Extraterrestrial Life
Pilot participants are reaching the end of the first month of the 4 Day Week SA experiment, while the search for extraterrestrial life continues. Ancient Aliens is on its 19th season and it’s a documentary based on Swiss author Erich von Däniken and his Ancient Astronaut theory elaborated on in the best-selling Chariots of the […]
An Employer Perspective of the 4 Day Week SA
Back in 2017 I co-founded a media company in Cape Town and found myself in the unenviable position of employer. While we serviced some major entities in the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) sector and created several job opportunities, I kept brutal hours. A four-day workweek would have helped with perspective and potentially pivoting better pre-pandemic. […]
An Employee Perspective of the 4 Day Week SA
As a proud 4 Day Week SA pioneer pilot participant we are currently on week four of this ambitious experiment. While it’s still too early to tell whether Big Beard Web Solutions will adopt a four-day week as the future of work for its employees, I have already noticed a few remarkable differences. While many […]
How a 4-Day Workweek Can Help Solve South Africa’s Current Unemployment Crisis
It’s hard for most South Africans to find gainful employment locally. Being one of the fortunate few to ply my craft abroad, as a writer I was just barely able to make ends meet when the pandemic and lockdown was at its worst back in 2020. I would soon shed the “struggling writer” cliché in […]
Kiki’s Delivery Service on a 4-Day Week – Part 2 of 2
Studio Ghibli has produced an impressive body of work that can easily be likened to Disney. While some of its most seminal pieces (Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away) sparked my teenage imagination, the ones I encountered after becoming a father would greatly influence this new chapter of my life. Our last conversation revolved around Kiki, […]
Kiki’s Delivery Service on a 4-Day Week – Part 1 of 2
The Studio Ghibli animated masterpiece was released in 1989 and its profound depth is in part, attributed to the efforts of legendary Japanese director, Hayao Miyazaki. My recent focus on the four-day week, which inspired me to spend more time with my 4-year-old daughter, had us watching it for the first time this past Saturday […]
Your Spiritual Wellbeing on a Four-Day Workweek
Soul, life, psyche and ego are a small sample of words associated with “spirit”. Consider the metrics of Health and Wellbeing also Family and Household Life from the recently released UK four-day week pilot: Respectively, 43% reported an improvement in mental health with 73% achieving greater satisfaction with their time. So, what does mental health […]
Your Emotional Wellbeing on a Four-Day Workweek
Ever heard the term “catch feelings”? Colloquially it is used to describe the romantic attraction that develops between two parties. It also refers to the act of someone getting hurt by someone else. While having feelings may be perceived as weakness by some, any relationship you’ve encountered in your lifetime, will testify to the fact […]
