The Experience Strategy Podcast · 2026-05-20 · 19 min
Featured article: " I'm Not Doing Laundry on the Clock. I'm Microshifting ." by Eve Upton-Clark, Fast Company , October 7, 2025 Owl Labs reports that 65% of workers are interested in microshifting - what the company calls structured flexibility built from short, nonlinear work blocks matched to energy, duties, and productivity. Joe, Dave, and Aransas take the article apart and put it back together in a more useful frame. The term itself gets challenged early. Joe argues most of what the article describes is closer to macroshifting (hour-long, hour-and-a-half-long focused blocks), not micro. Dave reframes the word entirely: a shift is not a period of work, it is a change of mode. And once you read it that way, the whole article becomes a confirmation of two frameworks the show has been working with for years - modes and life systems. The conversation widens into how midlife women, AI-augmented workers, and traditional workplaces all bump up against the same problem: human productivity has never been a flat eight-hour line, and the companies still pretending it is are losing the people who know better. Key Ideas Microshifting is really mode-shifting.
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