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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

The four-day work week with Bolt CEO, Ryan Breslow

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As The Great Reshuffle continues to disrupt workplaces, what should our cadence or schedule of work look like? With a five-day work week, there's minimal opportunity to recharge...and a lot of capacity for burnout. Ryan Breslow, CEO of technology company Bolt, joins Jessi to discuss his company's experiment in shortening the work week without scaling back on the work itself.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Kwame Christian, CEO of the American Negotiation Institute, and I have a quick question

0:07.1

for you.

0:08.1

When was the last time you had a difficult conversation?

0:10.9

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0:15.2

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0:19.3

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0:24.6

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0:26.7

So level up your negotiation skills by making negotiate anything part of your daily routine.

0:33.0

From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.

0:36.9

A 40-hour work week.

0:39.6

It's a staple of the modern economy.

0:42.1

Many of us here in the US expect to work a standard 9-5, or let's be more honest.

0:47.4

A 9-2-1-ever plus a little bit more after the kids go to bed and maybe an early morning

0:51.3

call.

0:52.3

During the pandemic, those boundaries between work and life, they just collapsed.

0:56.6

I remember the early days when Jude was 18 months, we had no childcare.

1:01.0

I'd record episodes from my closet willy-napped, I'd get up at 5am and work before he

1:05.2

woke, and for a while I was more productive, so productive.

1:09.0

For months we published two episodes a week, but working like that was a recipe for burnout.

1:14.7

It was the same for a lot of you.

1:17.3

People grew less productive.

1:18.9

A lot of folks just up and quit their jobs.

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