Chicken Soup For The Soul – Tough Times For

Have you ever…?

A) Wondered whether the new year really is the best time to start your new diet, with all those forgiving woolen layers and leftover Christmas cheese around?

B) Broken your New Year’s Resolutions before January is over?

C) Considered the respective merits of clean living vs. having your cake and eating it?

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.