The Case for a Four-Day Work Week

A year into the experiment, our output didn’t drop. Here is what actually changed, and what didn’t.

When we told the team we were going to try a four-day week, the first question wasn’t “which day off?” It was “what happens to the work?” That turned out to be the right question, and answering it honestly is the reason the experiment stuck.

We didn’t squeeze five days into four. Nobody was asked to work ten-hour days. Instead, we spent the first month looking hard at where our week was actually going — and most of it wasn’t going to the work our clients paid us for.