Impact of the Four-Day Workweek

The acronym TGIF (thanks to God on Friday) will soon lose its popularity and may be replaced with TGIT (thanks to Thursday god). This change is due to the growing popularity of the 4-day work week. This is standard for many companies and local governments. The benefits of this 4-day weekly work seem to go far beyond the organization and extend to employees and society as a whole. To explain this point, this survey examines the strengths and weaknesses of the four-day weekly labor and validates the problem from the organization, employers, and social perspectives.

In this article, I will explain that 4 day working hours are the best schedule for creative and knowledge-centered companies. Standard working hours are full time 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week. Working 4 days a week, the setting can be 32 hours a week, or 10 hours a day for 4 days. Let's see what this means. As you see, you can not force creativity and critical thinking. They all flourish freely. Freedom in the sense that it is not a robot means to work 8 to 12 hours a day for 5 days. If you get a high quality work and want to maximize your productivity, every second of the work is pressured and employees should reduce the time spent on work, which is contrary to intuition maybe.

There are some topics on switching from the standard 5-day week to the 4th day, especially for parents who have work that may take extra days to look after the children. Deloitte and KPMG offer 4 day working hours and flexible working hours, but workers are responsible for completing 40 hours of work on these days. Treehouse is a technology education company with 32 hours of work per week, 32 hours a week from 2006 to 2016. Workers need to start working again on Friday, but limit their workforce after layoffs

Many companies have worked 4 weeks a week, 4 days a week, 10 hours a week in the past 10 years, so we can complete every weekend in 3 days. One of the main supporters of the four-day week is Jason Fried, a CEO and co-founder of Basecamp, whose employees work from April to October every year, four days a year. In an interview with the Washington Post, Ms. Fried said, "I do not think anyone will become creative when I am tired." . Unfortunately, as he explained, a typical workplace is designed to cause confusion rather than limiting them.