The $100 Startup

Your First Best Friend Nobody can possibly take Grandpa’s place in our lives. He shares a lifetime of wisdom with us and passes on a wealth of our family history. He tells us the real stories about how Mom or Dad behaved as children, including the ones they hoped we’d never hear. And he gives us the kind of attention that makes us feel like we are the most important person in the world.

The world of work has seen a dramatic shift in recent times: the former security and benefits associated with permanent employment are being displaced by the less stable gig economy. Barnes explains the dangers of a focus on flexibility at the expense of hard-won worker protections, and argues that with the four-day week, we can have the best of all worlds: optimal productivity, work-life balance, worker benefits and, at long last, a solution to pervasive economic inequities such as the gender pay gap and lack of diversity in business and governance.