These U.K. companies ran an experiment: Let employees work 4 days per week without cutting their pay. So far, the feedback is positive: 86% of the companies said they'll likely continue with 4-day weeks.
"There are multiple different models that are termed a four-day week," she points out."For example, some organizations have condensed hours, so the number of working hours isn't actually reduced. They're condensed into fewer days with extended hours during those days." That's a model that could increase stress and burnout, rather than reduce it.
"The work week for one of those employees is very different to the other employee in terms of their productivity," she says."Knowledge work at, say, an advertising agency where your employer has you around five days a week, nine to five, because they're going to have meetings and they're paying you to be in that space so that they can use you, doesn't necessarily mean that you're being productive while you're in that space.
She also notes that, paradoxically, while a four-day work week does free up time for workers, it's also a constraint, one that might not work for a lot of people. "Workers have different preferences; different ways of working," she says."Some people like to have prescribed hours; very set hours. They know exactly what they're doing when they're doing it, and they find that productive. Other people like to be able to work when they feel they're most productive. and that might not be in core working hours."Her caution was reflected in a small and very random poll conducted by NPR on the streets of London recently.
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