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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

Ideas.Ted

My book about the move towards four-day workweek, Shorter , was published in the US in early March 2020. “Instantly, you see happier people,” says Paul McNulty, whose online publishing company adopted this schedule in mid-2020. At first, I worried that it was exactly the wrong time to publish a book on the four-day week. .

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EarthTalk: Impact of Spending Time Online

Eco-Office Gals

Google, Facebook, and Amazon.com are already deeply committed to the cloud computing model, with Microsoft, Yahoo and others following suit accordingly. For its part, Google has been a real leader in the building of green data centers, even powering them with renewable energy. kilowatt hours worth of energy annually per user.