Software Companies With 4 Day Work Week. Employees at software company Wildbit have been working 32-hour four-day workweeks for more than two years. Companies testing out the 4-day work week are measuring their employees productivity rate and evaluating if theyre still hitting revenue and profit targets.
4-Day Work Week Boosts Productivity Mental Health An Icelandic study proving that a 4-day week was not only viable but actually beneficial in terms of productivity as well as mental health has been heralded as an. Between 2008 and 2011 the Utah state government instituted a 410 work week. The software company Basecamp previously called 37signals for example goes to a 32-hour work week from May through October writes CEO Jason Fried in the New York Times.
Some companies go even further by moving to a 32-hour work week of four eight-hour days typically in the summer.
The software and data engineering company headquartered in New York City started testing a four-day workweek in August to help prevent employee burnout and. Were producing the same amount of quality of work maybe even more so because were more focused on whats important Jordan said. When Unilever said in November it would move staff in its New Zealand office to a four-day week on the same pay the maker of Dove soap and Magnum ice-cream which employs more than 150000 people. Digital marketing agency Reboot Digital PR offers employees a 4-day work week after 702 in results over the past year.
