Yet another win for four-day workweek supporters

Yet another win for four-day workweek supportersYet another win for four-day workweek supportersYet another success story for the 4-day workweek. Fast Company followed Wildbits a small Philadelphia software company shift to a 4-day week in May 2017. Overall, it went well, in following with the trend of other companies going for the big four.Last March, a New Zealand companyof 240 employees, Perpetual Guardian, tested it out for two months and reported greater productivity they decided to make the change full-time in October.Indiana firm Reusser Design has had 4-day workweeks with longer working days since 2013.There have been some busts, however tech education company Treehouse had a 4-hour workweek since 2006 in 2016, however, they laid off 20% of its workforce and instituted a 5-day workweek. In 2008, Utah enforced a 4-day week with ten-hour days for state employees to save on operating costs, but the program only lasted three years.Wildbit already had a flexible work schedule in place, and most of the team worked remotely. When the team went to a 4-day workweek, they had to make a few tweaks not everyone could have Fridays off some employees had to cover and have Mondays off instead.And cofounder Natalie Nagele is tinkering with the schedule with shorter, darker winter days coming, she might replace the 4-day workweek with five short workdays for the winter, saving the truncated workweek for the spring and summer months.Productivity is up Nagele said that upon review of the first year of 4-day workweeks, we realized we launched more features than the previous year.She stressed that the beauty of the 4-day workweek was the pressure to work smart and hard during the four days on, combined with the forced downtime of the three days off emailing off the clock and other unnecessary disruptions just isnt part of the culture.