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The Four-Day Week

January 19, 2023
10:15–11:00 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

Recent large-scale experiments suggest that workers’ hours can be cut without a corresponding drop in output. Can the four-day work week address some of the most urgent problems in the 21st-century world of work?

This is a livestreamed session.

Speakers

KG
Karien van Gennip
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment of the Netherlands
Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment of the Netherlands
AG
Adam Grant
Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Psychology
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
CH
Christy Hoffman
General Secretary
UNI Global Union
SN
Sander van’t Noordende
Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Executive Board
Randstad

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