We’re playing around with lots of different ideas — of rethinking how an agency works, what the structure is. One of those things is contemplating doing five-hour working days. How can we draw down – how can we make the business sufficiently efficient and make ourselves sufficiently productive? You know when you say this to people, they think you’re nuts and you’ve got no chance to make it happen. But why not? Henry Ford took the concept of the working day from seven days a week, 12 hours a day, to five days a week, 8 hours a day. And that was a hundred odd years ago. I think we’re about ready to rejig that.
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- is_single_v1This season on Things That Go Boom, we’re starting in Canada, because four years after January 6th, we want — we need — to understand our own divide. In 1970, Canada’s streets were full of troops and the country was on edge. Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte had been captured by a militant French separatist[...]
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- is_single_v1Anthony CriderWhen Members of Congress are sworn into office, they say an oath. To protect the country from all enemies… foreign and domestic. But what does a domestic enemy look like? And how can they be stopped? Four years after January 6th, we're turning our eyes on the US to ask, “in our divided times, how[...]
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- is_single_v1When former US Navy Intelligence Officer Andrew McCormick spent the holiday season in Kandahar in 2013, attempts at holiday cheer were everywhere. But few were more out-of-touch than the generic care packages sent from civilians who knew nothing about him — or the war he was fighting. Part of our series of monologues in partnership[...]
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Tom Hashemi
We're playing around with lots of different ideas -- of rethinking how an agency works, what the structure is. One of those things is contemplating doing five-hour working days. How can we draw down – how can we make the business sufficiently efficient and make ourselves sufficiently productive? You know when you say this to people, they think you're nuts and you've got no chance to make it happen. But why not? Henry Ford took the concept of the working day from seven days a week, 12 hours a day, to five days a week, 8 hours a day. And that was a hundred odd years ago. I think we’re about ready to rejig that.
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