Days After COVID- 4DWW Maybe 🙏

Sam Lin
2 min readDec 5, 2020

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www.unilever.co.nz

Just want to kudos to the brave Unilever NZ leaders, who dare to experiment 4-Day Work Week at full pay leading the way. Let me know if you are hiring. 😉 I bet Unilever NZ employees will not only be grateful & happier, but also show the world how to impact more with less time, aka more productive. 🦾

Not To Waste The Opportunity

This year thanks to Work From Home, I’ve bit more time for myself. I started to be more mindful on what the future hold for the next generation. Unfortunately COVID also makes it really hard for everyone. We all wish to survive this safely & earlier. Nevertheless in the meantime, what we may try in shaping better a workplace? Maybe we will come out stronger. My money is on 4DWW.

4DWW bootstraps a virtuous cycle

Distributed Work’s 5 Levels of Autonomy

I’ve been evangelizing One Less Work Day for my own good. 😋 To be clear, I’m not in the camp of reducing impacts to achieve that. After all, some of us need more reasons to jump out of bed for a few days. Therefore, I admire leaders pushing forward great cultures may achieve both, e.g. L5 Nirvana: a team is effortlessly effective to consistently perform better than any in-person team could. 🤠 Even so for now, WFH may use to be a luxury, it is necessity to adapt COVID now.

Ma.tt: Distributed Work’s Five Levels of Autonomy

Pivot The Crisis

A Chinese saying: in the midst of every crisis, lies opportunity. Hoping one day when we look back, the opportunity is not wasted indeed. So sooner rather later we will reach what Jack Ma described: “people should work 3 days a week, 4 hours a day” and even Star Trek Utopia. 🎊

否极泰来(pi ji tai lai), aka Rising From Rock Bottom — Calligraphy by www.akuziti.com/mb

Discretion

The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company. Furthermore, considering them are thought experiments & open to debate, because strategy changes nothing without proper execution.

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Sam Lin
Sam Lin

Written by Sam Lin

A Taiwanese lives in Silicon Valley since 2014 with my own random opinions to share. And, they are my own, not those of companies I work for.