![]() ![]() And as soon as I was told I needed to do it all in four days, the same standard, I just became a whole bunch more productive. KELLY: I think it's one of those things where if you get told you can do something in five days, you take five days to do it. And they both say working less actually made them more productive. Brad Praught works at Pressure Drop Brewing, a brewery in London, and they're workers at two companies who recently participated in a six-month study about the feasibility of a 32-hour workweek. Who could ask for more than that, really?ĬHAKRABARTI: Colleen Kelly works at Trio Media, a digital marketing agency in Leeds in the United Kingdom. I'm spending more time with my wife because I've got that extra day off. So is it time to do away with it all together? What would life be like if a normal workweek were only four days long?ĬOLLEEN KELLY: I'm just so grateful that being able to have like this extra day to do what I want to do and what I need to do.īRAD PRAUGHT: That extra day during the week gives you a lot of time to do your errands, you know, doctor's appointments, which are almost impossible to get, sometimes paying bills and all that sort of thing. After all, it is the basis of how we define full time employment. So yes, how we work is pretty varied, but let's accept that in many sectors that five-day, 40-hour work week is still pretty standard. You might not have the same schedule week to week because you're gig working. You might do three twelves you might do 60 hours over six days. The conventional work schedule, though I know for many of you that's not the schedule you work at all. TranscriptĬHAKRABARTI: Five days, 40 hours a week. The company has been doing a four-day work week since April 2022.īryan Tyner, employee at Kickstarter. Jon Leland, chief strategy officer and head of sustainability at Kickstarter. Sam Smith, co-founder of Pressure Drop Brewing in London.īrad Praught, an employee at Pressure Drop Brewing. Also FeaturedĬlaire Daniels, CEO of Trio Media, a digital marketing agency in Leeds, U.K.Ĭolleen Kelly, an employee at Trio Media. His company tried the four-day work week and said it didn’t work. Shawn Noratel, CEO of the advertising agency Liquified Creative. Matthew Bidwell, Xingmei Zhang and Yongge Dai professor and professor of management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. four-day work week study for 4 Day Week Global. ![]() Juliet Schor, professor and economist in the Boston College Sociology Department. Today, On Point: Testing out the idea of a four-day work week. "It’s like trying to put less gas into a gas tank and expect to go the same distance, if not further," Shawn Noratel, CEO of the advertising agency Liquified Creative, says. However, some people say a four-day work week wouldn't work in the United States. "In most cases they are as productive in four days as they are in five," Schor, lead researcher on a four-day work week study, says.ġ5% of employees who participated in the study said “no amount of money” would convince them to go back to the five-day work week. Workers were less stressed, less burned out and got to spend more time with their families. "Employers are realizing that if they can rethink where people work, they can also rethink how many days are on the job," Juliet Schor, a professor and economist at Boston College, says. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here.Ī four-day work week may sound impossible. ![]() Nearly empty desks at the Fuze office in Boston on March 10, 2020. ![]()
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