If there’s a better way to work that makes you happier and more productive, why not try it?
That’s the thinking at Kickstarter, which for the past six months has been trialling a four-day work week with no loss of pay for staff.
“They’re happier and more refreshed after a three-day weekend to recharge. And we’re more effective as a company,” says Wolf Owczarek, director of operations at Kickstarter.
This idea, that employees can achieve the same amount of work in less time, might seem counter-intuitive. But it’s could be the key to solving two huge challenges – fixing employees’ often-awful work-life balance and simultaneously solving the productivity puzzle that has troubled organizations for years.
Buoyed by a mounting pile of academic research and success stories from Iceland, Japan, New Zealand and elsewhere, companies around the world are abandoning the traditional Monday-Friday model in favor of a four-day work week.
Most of them aren’t looking back.
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