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Overworked? Overwhelmed? Protect yourself from burnout.The amount of work placed on women is often insurmountable. Along with doing what's required for our jobs, we're often asked to manage tasks that don't lead to career growth or promotions. At work and at home we're charged with countless forms of invisible labor that sap our time and energy. We usually rise to the occasion and do all of these things well, but this constant flow of overwork can leave us feeling underappreciated, frustrated, and burned out.It's time to end the culture of overwork for women. From doing fewer dead-end tasks to delegating effectively, Overcoming Overwork provides practical advice for taking control of your workload so that you can spend your time doing what matters to you.This book will inspire you to:Work smarter, not harderDelegate tasks and projects for a more equitable balance of laborAsk for help when your workload becomes unmanageableCarve out time and space for yourselfThe HBR Women at Work series spotlights the real challenges and opportunities women experience throughout their careers. With interviews from the popular podcast of the same name and related articles, stories, and research, these books provide inspiration and advice for taking on topics at work like inequity, advancement, and building community. Featuring detailed discussion guides, this series will help you spark important conversations about where we're at and how to move forward.

'The New Rules of Work'explores the transformative landscape of 21st-century employment, challenging the traditional 9-to-5 office paradigm. This insightful book examines three pivotal trends reshaping our work lives: remote work, alternative schedules like the four-day workweek, and universal basic income. By tracing the evolution of work from the industrial revolution to the digital age, it provides context for understanding why conventional work models are being reimagined. The book argues that embracing these changes can lead to increased productivity, improved employee satisfaction, and more sustainable business practices. It draws on a wealth of research, including case studies of companies successfully implementing new work models and economic analyses of universal basic income experiments. What sets this guide apart is its holistic approach, considering not just technological disruptions but also the human element, exploring how these changes affect personal fulfillment and societal structures. Structured in three parts,'The New Rules of Work'introduces key concepts, explores their implications, and offers practical guidance for individuals and organizations to adapt. It combines academic rigor with real-world applicability, using data-driven analysis and relatable anecdotes to engage readers across various career stages. By addressing controversies and providing strategies for thriving in this new landscape, the book equips readers to navigate the future of work confidently.

An innovative view of how everyone doing part-time work and part-time caregiving would promote flourishing families, free time, equality, and the true value of care. The way that Western countries approach work and care for others is fundamentally dysfunctional. The amount of time spent at work places unsustainable stress on families, particularly in the face of rising inequality, while those who perform care are underpaid and their labor undervalued. In Part-Time for All, Jennifer Nedelsky and Tom Malleson propose a plan to radically restructure both work and care. As such, they offer a solution to four pressing problems: the inequality of caregivers; family stress from competing demands of work and care; chronic time scarcity; and policymakers who are ignorant about the care that life requires--the care/policy divide. Nedelsky and Malleson argue that no capable adult should do paid work for more than 30 hours per week, so that they can contribute substantial amounts of time to unpaid care for family, friends, or other'communities of care.'While the authors focus primarily on human-to-human care, they also include care for the earth as a vital part of this shift. All of the elements of Nedelsky and Malleson's proposal already exist piecemeal in various countries. What is needed is to integrate the key reforms and scale them up. The result is an actionable plan to motivate widespread take-up of part-time work and part-time care. Highlighting how these new norms can create synergies of institutional transformation while fostering a cultural shift in the value of care and work, this'care manifesto'identifies the deep changes that are needed and lays out a feasible path forward.

Get the Summary of Joe Sanok's Thursday is the New Friday in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Thursday is the New Friday, author Joe Sanok offers the exercises, tools, and training that have helped thousands of professionals—from authors and scholars to business leaders and innovators—create the schedule they want, resulting in less work, greater income, and more time for what they most desire.

Overtime is about the politics of time, and specifically the amount of time that we spend labouring within capitalist society. It argues that reactivating the longstanding demand for shorter working hours should be central to any progressive trajectory in the years ahead.This book explains what a shorter working week means, as well as its history and its political implications. Will Stronge and Kyle Lewis examine the idea of reducing the time we all spend labouring for other on both a theoretical and political level, and offer an analysis rooted in the radical traditions from which the idea first emerged. Throughout, the reader is introduced to key theorists of work and working time alongside the relevant research regarding our contemporary'crisis of work', to which the authors'proposal of a shorter working week responds.

Create your own schedule, maximize your leisure time, and work less while making more by following the revolutionary—yet realistic—four-day work week outlined in this groundbreaking book.In Thursday is the New Friday, author Joe Sanok offers the exercises, tools, and training that have helped thousands of professionals—from authors and scholars to business leaders and innovators—create the schedule they want, resulting in less work, greater income, and more time for what they most desire.Outlining the exact same strategies Joe used to go from working 60-hour weeks in the beginning of his career to now working 4 or less days a week, Thursday is the New Friday will help you: Understand how you too can apply these principles and customize them for your own situation to be more productive at work while enjoying more leisure time.Discard unnecessary tasks and learn efficiencies that would not have been discovered otherwise.Find inspiration in the stories and testimonials from Joe's clients and colleagues who have implemented his methodology into their own work lives with incredible results.Understand the psychological research behind the principles of the four-day workweek and why we are actually more productive with one less workday.Most importantly, Thursday is the New Friday empowers you with a practical, evidence-based methodology to create your own work schedule and dedicate more of your precious personal time to pursuing your hobbies and spending time with your family and friends.

Innovative Arbeitszeitmodelle stehen wieder im Fokus der arbeitspolitischen Agenda: In den Gewerkschaften wird vermehrt über die Einführung einer 28-Stunden-Woche, Wahlmodelle und lebenslauforientierte Arbeitszeitpolitik diskutiert. Gleichzeitig gilt eine verkürzte Arbeitszeit in wachstumskritischen Debatten als alternatives Instrument zur Beschäftigungssicherung und als vielversprechende Maßnahme zur Verringerung der Emissionen. Doch obwohl die Zeit für klimapolitische Weichenstellungen drängt, werden die Positionen von Gewerkschaften und Sozialökologie getrennt verhandelt, was zu wechselseitigen Leerstellen führt. Steffen Liebig bringt die Konzepte zusammen und zeigt, dass die Politik der Arbeitszeitverkürzung geeignet ist, beide Positionen zu verbinden, und eine Schlüsselfunktion für die sozial-ökologische Transformation einnimmt.

Comment les temporalités en émergence dans le contexte de nos activités quotidiennes, professionnelles et sociales changent-elles notre rapport au travail? Comment, dans un univers de l'emploi dont les frontières se sont progressivement effacées, les espaces et les temps sociaux se recomposent-ils? Les auteurs du présent ouvrage proposent une réflexion critique à partir de la double exigence qui transforme sans cesse ces frontières. Il y a celle des milieux, soit celle des environnements des entreprises privées et organisations publiques avec les contraintes d'organisation que génèrent leurs activités. Il y a aussi le défi pour les travailleurs qui, pour s'affranchir de ces contraintes, doivent imaginer et expérimenter des formes de conciliation entre les temps du travail, de l'épanouissement professionnel, ainsi que les temps sociaux et familiaux. Ce livre met en dialogue – pour tout lecteur issu du domaine de la sociologie, de l'entrepreneuriat, de l'économie, des sciences politiques ou autres – des enquêtes menées dans différents milieux du travail. Il va au-delà de la simple présentation de la variable temporelle et de ses incidences sur les réarrangements institutionnels et intuitifs des tâches dans les organisations; il tente de dresser un état des lieux des temporalités contemporaines qui ont progressivement reconfiguré l'emploi et les activités professionnelles telles qu'elles prennent forme aujourd'hui. Fractionnement des temps professionnels, dilution des frontières traditionnelles des horaires, brouillage de temps sociaux autrefois cloisonnés, mais aussi espace de travail et espaces sociaux et familiaux: autant de variables dont la prégnance semble incontestable sur notre rapport au temps et au travail. Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay est professeure à l'Université TÉLUQ et directrice de l'Alliance de recherche universités-communautés (ARUC) sur la gestion des âges et des temps sociaux. Sid Ahmed Soussi est professeur au Département de sociologie de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) et membre du Centre de recherches sur les innovations sociales (CRISES) – axe travail et emploi.

This is a practical guide or'how to'manual on working time arrangements (also known as'work schedules') for the ILO's constituents - employers, workers, and governments. It is designed to assist organizations, both private and public, to make informed decisions regarding how to structure working time arrangements in a'balanced'manner for the mutual benefit of both workers and enterprises. The publication provides a set of guiding principles for developing balanced working time arrangements; some practical tips regarding how to structure various types of working time arrangements; and a step-by-step process that can be used for designing and implementing new and improved working time arrangements.

This book focuses on zero hours and on-call work as an extreme form of casual and precarious employment. It includes country studies of the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and Ireland, where there has been increasing concern about the prevalence of such work, and working time uncertainty, as well as varying levels of public policy debate on regulation. The book incorporates a comparative review of zero hours work based on the findings of the country studies. This pays particular attention to state regulatory responses to zero hours work, and incorporates the sociological concepts of accumulation and legitimation functions of the state.Exploring the regulation of zero hours work beyond individual countries, the book includes an analysis of external regulation of zero hours work at the supranational level, namely the European Union and ILO.Further, it assesses the implications of zero hours for workers in new sectors ofeconomic activity, particularly the impact of the platform or ‘gig'economy on the fundamental nature of the employment relationship. It also considers the societal implications of zero hours work and the ethical responsibilities of employers and governments towards workers as citizens.

Eine 25-Stunden-Arbeitswoche bei vollem Gehalt? Das kann doch gar nicht gehen. Doch! Der Unternehmer Lasse Rheingans wagte das Experiment. Und blieb nach einer Testphase dauerhaft bei dem Modell. Denn das überraschende wie überzeugende Ergebnis war eine höhere Produktivität in kürzerer Zeit sowie begeisterte und kreativere Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter. Rheingans erklärt, warum der 5-Stunden-Tag zukunftsweisend ist, aber auch wo die Fallstricke liegen. Wie überzeugt man beispielsweise die Kunden, die eine ständige Erreichbarkeit einfordern, und wie lässt sich der Austausch der Kollegen sichern, wenn keine Zeit mehr für den kurzen Schwatz bleibt? Rheingans hat viele Hürden überwinden müssen. Und ist heute mehr denn je überzeugt: Wenn wir auch in Zukunft erfolgreich sein wollen, müssen wir Arbeit komplett neu denken.

An increasing number of people do shift work, including night shifts. These shifts structure their daily and private lives and, in turn, affect their social lives. Companies, on the other hand, are faced with the questions of how they can maintain their shift workers'ability to work in the long term and how they can organise productive shift work with ageing employees. Case studies from a variety of sectors reveal that shift work does not necessarily equate to shift work and that shift workers'ability to work develops differently. Some remain healthy and contented doing shift work until they retire, while others find the work is detrimental to their health and quality of life. As companies'options for relieving staff of shift work for health reasons are limited, they are continually looking for innovative ways in which they can sustain their employees'ability and motivation to do shift work in the long term.

FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2019 - Start-Up Inspiration CategoryThere are new flexible and independent working opportunities available in the gig economy for those brave enough to seize them. It is estimated that the number people involved with the gig economy will double in the next four years. New generation workers are realising that they can break the chains of corporate work and go at it alone. With flexible working hours, fluid work arrangements and technology that they can leverage to their advantage, people are creating purposeful careers that fit in with their lives, not the other way around. Working in the Gig Economy is the ultimate guide to successfully navigating the new flexible world of work. This is a book that will allow you to really examine the possibilities of freelance and flexible working. Is it really for you? Do you have what it takes to stay motivated, get clients to hire you and achieve that long-yearned for work-life balance? Thomas Oppong is an expert in entrepreneurship and the gig economy. With this book, he takes readers through the main pitfalls of working for themselves, including how to stay productive, how to manage your professional network, build a personal brand and crucially how to keep the work coming and get paid on time. Working in the Gig Economy is the essential guide to having a successful and fulfilling career in the gig economy.