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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (2007) is a self-help book by Timothy Ferriss, an American writer, educational activist, and entrepreneur. [1] It deals with what Ferriss refers to as "lifestyle design", and repudiates the traditional "deferred" life plan in which people work grueling hours and take few ...
At the insistence of the eventual publisher, he changed the title to The 4-Hour Workweek. in doing so he kicked off a movement. In 2007 Tim Ferriss published a book, originally called Drug Dealing ...
Timothy Ferriss (born July 20, 1977) is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru. [1] [2] He is known for his 4-Hour self-help book series—including The 4-Hour Work Week, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef [3] —that focused on lifestyle optimizations, but he has since reconsidered this approach. [4]
This new way of mostly passive working — the principles behind his book “The 4-Hour Workweek” — allowed him to go from making $40,000 per year and working 80 hours per week to earning ...
The five-day workweek is a cultural norm; the result of early 1900s union advocacy to reduce the six-day workweek, which led to the invention of the weekend.In the early 20th century, when the average work week in developed nations was reduced from around 60 to 40 hours, it was expected that further decreases would occur over time.
Protecting Mental Health With a 4-Day Week ... 32-hour workweek with no change in pay. “Thirty-two hours of work for 40 hours of pay, or a 25% raise if you prefer to calculate it that way ...
The New Deal and the 40-Hour Work Week as a Moral and Social Issue. The 40-hour work week was a pragmatic solution to problems of industry and unemployment, but it was also a hard-fought victory ...
4 Days, 40 Hours is a 1971 book by Riva Poor reporting on a "revolution in work and leisure" from a rearranged work week with four days of 10 hours each. [1] In some cases, the book claims, companies can increase production and profit while giving employees more time off.