{"podcast":{"title":"Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan","slug":"future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576","podcast_index_feed_id":891576,"rss_url":"https://futureofworkpodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.thefutureorganization.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/5/3/f/d53f491be4dc443dd959afa2a1bf1c87/5_copy.jpg","author":"Jacob Morgan","episode_count":1212,"summary":"The future of work isn't coming. It's already here — and it's moving fast. Future Ready is the podcast for leaders who want to stay ahead of AI, workplace transformation, and the forces reshaping how organizations operate and compete. Hosted by Jacob Morgan, futurist and bestselling author, this is where strategy meets reality. Every week, two formats in one feed: honest, unfiltered conversations with the CEOs, CHROs, and senior executives actually building the future of work — and sharp, no-fluff daily briefings that take the most important developments in artificial intelligence, AI agents, leadership, hybrid work, and organizational strategy and tell you exactly what they mean for your business. No hype. No filler. Just the insights, frameworks, and real-world playbooks that help you lead smarter, build resilient teams, and make better decisions in a world that won't slow down. If you're serious about leading what's next — this is your podcast. Subscribe to Future Ready wherever you listen.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576"},"episode":{"title":"The 4-Day Workweek: Why the Business Case Doesn't Hold Up and Won't Anytime Soon","slug":"the-4-day-workweek-why-the-business-case-doesn-t-hold-up-and-won-t-anytime-soon","published_at":"2026-04-29T22:26:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576/the-4-day-workweek-why-the-business-case-doesn-t-hold-up-and-won-t-anytime-soon","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576","url":"https://futureofworkpodcast.libsyn.com/the-4-day-workweek-why-the-business-case-doesnt-hold-up-and-wont-anytime-soon","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/futureofworkpodcast/future-ready-4-day-workweek-bulletproof-business-case-2026-04-29.mp3?dest-id=209072","summary":"April 29, 2026: Bill Gates is predicting a 2-day workweek. Jamie Dimon says 3.5. Eric Yuan, the CEO of Zoom, says 5 days is over. Fortune just amplified a major study claiming we waste a full day every week procrastinating. The 4-day workweek movement has never had more wind at its back. In this episode, I'm making the bulletproof business case against it. I'll walk through eight reasons the case doesn't hold up — and why the policy isn't likely to spread broadly anytime soon, even with all the keynote energy behind it. I'm covering the studies that don't measure what they claim to measure, the Iceland myth, the company failures that get scrubbed from the data, the AI rhetorical pivot, why the happiness data isn't actually a business case, the wage math nobody talks about, the competitive reality at the country and company level, and why even the countries running pilots are voting against legislating it.","meta_description":"April 29, 2026: Bill Gates is predicting a 2-day workweek. Jamie Dimon says 3.5. Eric Yuan, the CEO of Zoom, says 5 days is over. Fortune just amplified a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3096,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576/episodes/the-4-day-workweek-why-the-business-case-doesn-t-hold-up-and-won-t-anytime-soon/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576/the-4-day-workweek-why-the-business-case-doesn-t-hold-up-and-won-t-anytime-soon.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}