http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/michael-honey/ Canberra-based designer Michael Honey is the founder of Icelab, a small, media-agnostic design studio. After completing a masters in philosophy and working the standard gamut of low-paid, character-building junior positions, he scored a job as creative director of a small advertising agency after helping them win their biggest account. Since then he’s been working in design-related fields while harbouring secret ambitions to be the philosopher-writer Alain de Botton, but with hair. He also teaches at the University of Canberra. His interests include architecture, urbanism, and environmental issues. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-good-and-bad-of-working-four-day-weeks-all-year/ [Editors’ note: This is in response to an article published in The Punch on Monday about 10-hour, four-day working weeks. Michael Honey’s business does just that.] The indignities of modern working life are many, and one of the most onerous is the grind of the five-day working week. Two days of play after five days’ work is inadequate to renew our enthusiasm for life:  we barely recover from the quintuple routine of waking to the alarm, commuting to work and back (to say nothing of what transpires in between), dining with our weary family and crashing to uneasy sleep; than we have to confront the thought, on a Sunday afternoon, that it all will begin again. A five-day work week leaves insufficient room for us to develop our sensitive natures: it makes us dull and cranky. We run a small design studio with four fulltime staff. When we started up the place, one of my aims, as a refugee from the advertising agencies where I built my career, was to build a kinder, gentler, more humane organisation. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Michael Honey) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-good-and-bad-of-working-four-day-weeks-all-year/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-good-and-bad-of-working-four-day-weeks-all-year/#item2242 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:44:43 +0000 Michael Honey | Author bios | The Punch