Nice work week, if you can get it

Pre-order the Planet Money book here for your free gift. Our sister show, The Indicator, is chronicling the evolving business of crime for its Vice Week series. Today, we bring to you two cases of crime in the age of AI. First, cybercriminals are using our own voices against us. ... Show More

It’s here! It’s free to download and playtest! It’s the Planet Money game! (Download here.)Download and playtest the game go here Sign up for the 11/1 virtual AMA event and get updates about the gameSubmit your feedback on the gameWatch the how-to video with Kenny and Elan for pl ... Show More

We want to make a board game. It must, of course, teach the world about economics. It must be fun. It’d be nice if it sold lots of copies! How hard could that be!? (Monopoly and Catan are hugely popular and basically little economy simulators, after all.)Well, turns out, it’s qui ... Show More

Your 60-second money minute. Is a 4 Day Work Week Coming 

In today’s episode for 14th April 2023, we dive into whether shorter workweeks make any economic sense. 

One of the unsuspected consequences of a global pandemic is a re-evaluation not only of how we work but what work means to us. For some the flexibility was a breath of fresh air, others missed the office and even the commute but with employee happiness more important than ever an ... Show More

Your 60 second money minute. Today’s topic: It's All About The Job Cuts 

The five-day workweek can feel as preordained as the number of minutes in an hour, but it hasn't always been the norm. Workers fought for a Monday-to-Friday schedule before it became standard in the U.S. in the 1930s. Since then, the nature of work has changed a lot, and now, wor ... Show More

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news.    To ... Show More

Mal angenommen, wir arbeiten weniger. Sind wir mit mehr Freizeit glücklicher? Und wer macht dann die übrige Arbeit? Können KI und Digitalisierung dabei helfen? Ein Gedankenexperiment. Unsere Quellen und weiterführende Fakten zu dieser Folge: Tipp "Der KI-Podcast: Werden wir alle ... Show More

The 4-day workweek wins again - but this time with 6 months of data from the UK trial! Read more about it here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/four-day-work-week-uk-study-finds-majority-of-employers-shifting   This is the article I referenced about retail: htt ... Show More

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