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UPDATE MAY 10, 2022: Watch the video of her TED Talk
电子游戏软件 社会学教授朱丽叶·肖尔, 国际公认的社会经济学家, author, 教育家, 和电子游戏正规平台人员, will join Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, SpaceX首席执行官埃隆·马斯克, 前你.S. 副总统阿尔·戈尔, 芬兰总理桑娜·马林, and a host of other luminaries at this year's flagship TED conference, TED2022:一个新时代在温哥华，B.C. One of the world's most high-profile conferences, the five-day gathering of expert speakers on education, 业务, 科学, 科技, 艺术, 以及全球议题.
朱丽叶·肖尔(加里·韦恩·吉尔伯特饰)
肖尔, whose research focuses on the intersection of work, 消费, 气候变化, will make the case for a four-day work week in her presentation on Tuesday, 4月12日.
Invitations to speak at the TED main conference are both prestigious and coveted; organizers search year-round for those who will "inform and inspire, 惊喜和喜悦,根据该项目网站. TED演讲, the online compilation of recordings from the conferences and other events, are viewed or listened to more than three billion times annually.
肖尔 says she was both "honored and excited" to be asked to join the gathering of prominent academics, 教育工author, 电子游戏正规平台人员, 慈善家, 环保人士, 科学家们, 技术人员, 艺术家, 积极分子, 和其他人.
“我认为这会很有趣,她说, "in addition to giving me a platform to share my research and perspectives."
肖尔是 纽约时报 畅销书 过度劳累的美国人: 休闲的意外衰退, widely credited for influencing the national debate on work and family. Her scholarly interests center on the human impact and effectiveness of current working practices, particularly new ways to reconfigure 业务 in the 21st century. She has conducted extensive research on the sharing and gig economies, as well as the link between working hours and high carbon emissions.
She is currently leading an international team researching four-day work week trials in six countries. 该试点项目由 全球四天工作周, a nonprofit affiliated with Oxford and Cambridge universities in the U.K. 和爱尔兰的都柏林大学学院, has four-day weeks (with reductions in hours but no reductions in pay) in progress at companies in the U.S. and in Ireland—with summer starting dates for the U.K.美国、澳大利亚和新西兰. More than 100 companies—potentially more—are planning to participate.
数以百计的U.S. workers are experiencing their first day off this week as their six-month trial begins. 在美国的其他人.S. 会在未来几个月加入审判吗, 而超过3,000 workers at 60 companies across Britain—from small 业务es to the Royal 社会 of Biology—will test a four-day week from June-December, in what is thought to be the biggest trial to take place anywhere in the world, 据报道 《电子游戏软件》.
“The big message is that there are multiple benefits for employees and the organization. 为员工, 好处包括降低压力水平, 更好地平衡工作与家庭, and better overall health; for the employers: fewer resignations and absenteeism, 而且生产率没有下降，有时还会上升. There are also 社会 benefits, related to family and community.”
Participating companies and employers receive training from the campaign prior to beginning the trial, 确保平稳过渡.
“我们将学习经济, 社会, 碳排放的结果,肖尔说, who is joined on the project by BC Associate Professor of 社会学 Wen Fan, and University College Dublin faculty member Orla Kelly, 谁有BC大学的社会学博士学位.
While 肖尔 acknowledges that not every industry may be able to adapt to a shorter work week, "the big message is that there are multiple benefits for employees and the organization, 她说, referring to findings from previous experiments. “为员工, 好处包括降低压力水平, 更好地平衡工作与家庭, and better overall health; for the employers: fewer resignations and absenteeism, 而且生产率没有下降，有时还会上升. There are also 社会 benefits, related to family and community."
The carbon impacts are to be determined at this point, she said.
"Our team is leading the global data collection, and collaborating with local 电子游戏正规平台人员 in each country,她说. "We're gathering information from employees through surveys and interviews, and companies are giving us their administrative data. We will be analyzing how things changed pre- to post- trial, 以及跨越国家和公司, 员工人口统计和工作类型."
As the project ramps up, it's drawing the attention of news media in the U.S. 和国外. In May, 肖尔 will keynote an international summit on the four-day week in Spain.
除了…之外 过度劳累的美国人, 肖尔, who came to 电子游戏软件 from Harvard University in 2001, has published numerous other books and scholarly articles, and her work has been extensively covered and cited by national and international news media. A former Guggenheim and Brookings Institution fellow, she has received multiple awards for her research, has served as a consultant to the United Nations, at the World Institute for Development Economics 电子游戏正规平台, 以及联合国开发计划署, 并在美国各地广泛演讲.S., Europe, and Japan to a variety of civic, 业务, labor, and academic groups. Her research is cited in the just-released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III 6th Assessment Report, the latest from the United Nations body assessing climate change-related 科学.
Her TED Talk on 4月12日 will be part of a session on 'Wellbeing."
Memorizing the presentation is a conference requirement, which is something new for 肖尔. "I give a lot of talks, but never from memory,她说. "It has been a bit nerve-racking, but also exciting to learn a new presentation modality."
All conference sessions will be recorded and made available to the public online at a future date.
Patricia Delaney | University Communications | April 2022