Is it Time to Abandon the Five-Day Work Week?

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🗓️ 15 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Is it time to abandon the five-day work week? Or is the "five-days on, two days off" cadence of work and rest more important than ever? This event was organised in partnership with Slack, your digital HQ. Slack connects your teams, tools, customers and partners in a digital place that’s fast, flexible and inclusive for a work-from-anywhere world. From FTSE 100 companies to corner shops, millions of people around the world use Slack to connect their teams, unify their systems and drive their business forwards. If you would like to find out more about how Slack are supporting their clients then visit https://www.slack.com/digitalhq for a host of valuable resources! -- Speakers: Bruce Daisley, Elizabeth Uviebinené, Karl Nicholson and Nick Srnicek Host: Anne McElvoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Welcome to Intelligent Squared. I'm Connor Boyle.
1:03.0	It's the Sunday debate and for today's podcast, we're teaming up with Slack.
1:06.0	I'm putting in a few extra hours to bring you a special discussion
1:10.0	around what is the ideal length of the working week.
1:18.0	If you enjoyed the episode and want to find out more about Slack,
1:21.0	visit www.slack.com slash digital HQ for a host of valuable resources
1:26.0	on how they're supporting their clients.
1:28.0	Now let's go to our host for today, the journalist and broadcaster,
1:31.0	and McElvoy with more.
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