UC MBA Thought Leadership Series: The Productivity Paradox

The Productivity Paradox

Why do so many workplaces still operate on 19th-century models in a 21st-century world?

Join us for a thought-provoking keynote with Charlotte Lockhart, a business leader and founder of 4 Day Week Global who implemented a 4-day work week in 2018, well before it was a hot topic. The result? A measurable boost in productivity, employee engagement, and workplace culture.

What have they learned since? How did the model hold up through COVID? Would they do it the same way again—and what’s next?

Following Charlotte’s presentation our panel of industry experts will discuss why, despite technological advances, productivity in many industries remains stagnant and whether changing how we work is the key to unlocking real progress.

Don’t miss this opportunity, the first in a series, to be part of the conversation that has the potential to inform the productivity paradox.

About Charlotte Lockhart

As co-founder of 4 Day Week Global, Charlotte works promoting internationally the benefits of a productivity-focused and reduced-hour workplace. Through this, she is on the board of the Wellbeing Research Centre at Oxford University. Charlotte’s passion for the reduced-hour work has led 4 Day Week Global to become the world’s leading organisation in promoting the concept of working smarter, not longer.

In her role she is a co-founding member of the World Wellbeing Movement alongside a number of leading global partners. In addition, Charlotte is working with a number of central and regional governments to help create an equitable method to transition to reducing work hours across an entire economy.

Today, Charlotte is considered the pioneer of the global four day week movement. Alongside her partner, Andrew Barnes, they are conducting the largest ever trials, currently taking place across the globe, with hundreds of companies and thousands of staff taking part to change their workplaces. This trial is combined with a global research programme involving academics from leading universities including Boston College, Cambridge, Oxford and many more.

As an experienced speaker, she encourages organisations to look at what they can change to become future workplaces and ready for the 21st century and beyond. Forbes Magazine recently recognised her as one of the Future of Work 50. Charlotte is focused on changing the way we work today to a better, more inclusive experience for everyone and every economy.