As an employee, I would happily take a 20% pay cut for 20% fewer hours of work. Granted this is coming from a highly paid tech worker.<p>As an employer, I would happily hire 20% more people to do the same number of hours of work. There's additional overhead for sure, but the extra voice in the room can be extremely valuable, especially for a small-to-medium sized startup.<p>This seems like a win-win for a lot of organizations.
There are now 200+ companies piloting a 4 day work week<p>And 150+ more have already made the switch e.g. <a href="https://4dayweek.io/companies" rel="nofollow">https://4dayweek.io/companies</a><p>I don't know what the future of work looks like<p>But I know it ISN'T 9-5, five days a week.
I think we need to start differentiating between a "4-day, 40-hour workweek" and a "32-hour workweek". I've been calling the former "four tens" - i.e. four 10-hour days.<p>While four-tens is definitely preferable to the traditional five-eights, it seems like a shitty compromise. The whole point of the 4 day workweek is to make strides towards a saner, more balanced lifestyle. Packing more work into fewer days doesn't move us in the right direction.