![]() ![]() “If it’s because you actually feel like you’re not hitting your goals, then maybe there’s so much work that that’s necessary,” she said. “Employees can get stressed out and their productivity actually decreases if company leaders don’t find ways to cut out unnecessary time sucks,” she noted.Īli Marler, chief marketing officer at L.A.-based small business Robin Golf, said that companies should reflect on the need for five workdays versus four. Some workers logged more hours each day of their shortened work week to keep their Fridays free. ![]() Working four days a week doesn’t always equate to working 32 hours. Some workers also reported a more efficient workflow, as their teams cut down on meetings and other traditional exercises deemed unnecessary (raise your hand if you’ve ever thought, “This meeting could’ve been an email”). Researchers found people working one fewer day a week report getting more sleep through the week, which has a whole host of health benefits. Now, as companies try to entice people to return to in-person work, some employers are hoping less time on the clock will lead more people to take and stay in jobs. But the push to rethink the way we work hit warp speed during the pandemic, as millions of office workers swapped cubicles for couches at home and other remote sites. The four-day work week concept isn’t new, nor unique to the U.S. ![]() “I found a lot of smaller companies, which made sense, but it was interesting to hear that a huge corporation like Lockheed was also doing this as a recruiting method,” she told me. Similar experiments across the pond yielded promising results, with dozens of companies in Britain trying a four-day work week and reporting broad worker happiness - while maintaining and, in some cases, increasing revenue.īack stateside, Masunaga was surprised to find that a majority of aerospace giant Lockheed Martin’s workforce has a four-day week. In a 2022 company survey, 93% of employees said that the four-day workweek had improved their overall productivity. “Now that I’ve experienced the freedom of both trying to maximize my impact as an employee, as well as trying to do the best for my daughter, I think it’s going to be hard for me to settle for the traditional model,” she said. ![]()
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