“Our new research, published in Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications journal, explores the practical experiences of 15 Australian firms that have tried switching to this model.
All but one of them decided to continue with the four-day work week. And none reported a loss of productivity.“
15 Australian companies switched to a four-day work week. It went surprisingly well
Como trabalhadores precarizados assumiram o protagonismo pelo fim da escala 6×1 no Brasil
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I do that since more than a year and it also give more room for voluntary work and has a much higher value for the local community and the society! #4dayweek #volunteering
100 years of servitude: This year marks the 100th anniversary of the official invention of the weekend. In May 1926, Ford Motor Co reduced the working week from six to five days because it was more efficient.
https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1977881_1977883_1977922,00.html
Now, I think, it's time to go a step further #4DayWeek
from #TheCrux
"Three day weekends are excellent and I think we should have more of them. I am far from alone.
A trial across multiple countries found a four-day work week reduces burnout. The World Economic Forum found four-day work weeks to be good in 2022. There’s also groups that run training courses on how to move your company to a four-day work week and they have a bunch of research also.
Since we’re all about data-driven decision making these days, I guess we’re all moving to adopt four-day work weeks as fast as we can, right? Given all the benefits and the research showing it’s a good thing to do? No?
Apparently it takes around 20 years for research to fight its way out of the dry prose of academic journals and into the wider populace.
A four-day work weeks seems weird only because we’re used to five, but there’s nothing natural about a two-day weekend. It’s remarkable how quickly people adjust to sudden changes in timekeeping, after all. Weeks aren’t real in the way that days are, and yet we make weird and arbitrary changes to how long a day is all the time and call it #daylightsaving.
Maybe we could start calling #fourdayweeks “#weekend saving” and start doing it for six months at a time to get people used to the idea. Once the people closer to the equator figure out what to do with their curtains and cows for half a year, we could suggest that this changing of the week twice a year is silly and we should just move to a permanent four day work week.
Then we can move on to the next goal: the three day work week.
Who’s with me?"
🖐️ man being already a #4dayweek practitioner i am *SO* with you on this @daedalus
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-22/four-day-work-week-health-burnout/105555392
A new peer-reviewed study finds a four-day work week improves both physical and mental health, reduces burnout and boosts job satisfaction. It's led some experts to say the federal government's productivity round table in August could help reframe work from being focused on hours to outcomes.
Asia rolls out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by Iran war
https://fortune.com/2026/03/11/iran-war-fuel-crisis-asia-work-from-home-closed-schools-price-caps/
#HackerNews #Asia #4DayWeek #WFH #FuelCrisis #IranWar #RemoteWork
Not gonna lie, the fact that my weekend starts on Thursday evening is an unmitigated blessing
Last November I saw the documentary "System update - Rebooting Our #Future" at the Films for future festival in #Zurich - it was very interesting! 💡 😃
You can watch the documentary for free at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub5I_x8impk
A majority of people are for climate action www.peoplesclimate.vote We need to communicate that to politicians 📣, so that they make stronger policies to combat climate change.
Solutions? #degrowth , shorter working week ( #4dayweek ), citizens assemblies, Climate Job Guarantee.
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