Work
How we earn a living, share a calendar and occasionally manage to do something worth doing.

The meeting that could have been a silence
A manager's experiment: replace the weekly status meeting with fifteen minutes of nothing.

What a pay rise actually buys
A year of tracking one household's budget shows that the extra money rarely goes where people think.

The four-day week, one year later
A mid-sized firm, a measurement problem and the surprising thing that did not change.

Why nobody reads the handbook
Onboarding documents are written for lawyers and read by no one. A better version fits on a postcard.

Learning to say no on a calendar
The most radical work tool of the decade is a blank afternoon.

A day of silence in an open-plan office
We tried it so you do not have to. Here is the data and the surprising thing people missed.
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