Could a 4 Day Week Work in Your Sector? Yes!

At Happy we are engaged in the UK four-day working week pilot, with 70 UK companies testing the idea from June to November 2022.

We’ve had huge interest, with my blogs on LinkedIn getting up to 10 times as many views as my other posts. But some respond by saying that it wouldn’t work in their sector.

So I was very interested to read the book Shorter: How Smart Companies Work Less, Embrace Flexibility and Boost Productivity by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. This gives a whole range of examples from different sectors.

How to Create Partial Absolute Cell References in Excel

In this two-minute video, Nicky explains how to create Partial Absolute Cell References in Microsoft Excel. Using Partial, or Mixed, Absolute Cell References, you can fix certain elements of a formula — either the row or the column reference, or both. This quick tip will save you lots of time when creating formulas in future!

How to Stop the Same Few People From Dominating Your Meetings

Wouldn’t it be nice if your whole team could find their voice and participate in meetings? Liberating Structures can help — 33 methods of that avoid one person dominating a conversation and give everybody a voice.

In this blog, Henry goes through two of the most popular methods to get you started.

We Are More Productive When Working From Home

How productive are you when working from home — do you get more work done, about the same, or less?

This was the question I asked my followers on LinkedIn recently, following the recent comments from Boris Johnson and notes that Jacob Rees-Mogg left on the desks of civil servants in his office. Of the almost 500 that replied, the result was overwhelming.