Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: The Case of the Four-Day Week
A lecture by Juliet Schor, Boston College
Event Details
Date
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Time
12-1:30 p.m.
Location
Description
Juliet Schor is an economist and Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Since 2022 she has been a lead researcher for pathbreaking trials studying hundreds of companies instituting four day, thirty-two hour workweeks with five days’ pay. A frequent contributor to public discourse and media, Schor’s Ted talk on “the case for the four day week” has more than three million views. Four Days a Week will be published by Harper Business in June 2025.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email pagac@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Thursday, April 17, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.