What are the benefits of a Four Day Week, and how can you sell it to your colleagues?

• Selling the idea: the benefits that others have found
• How it works across different sectors
• Get more done in less time and see the benefit in your people’s well-being

The Four Day Week is based on 32 hours. However this can take many different forms:

• Involve your people at the beginning, give them the ability to make the decisions
• Fixed day off or flexible working? Holidays and bank holidays
• What happens to part-time workers?
• Be aware of the challenges, not everybody may want it
• Making the Four Day Week bottom-up, not top-down.
• Dos and Don’ts, Surveys, newsletters, Yammer/Slack.

How do you become as productive in four days (or 32 hours) as you were in five?

• Focus: Avoid distractions and focus on “deep work”
• Meetings: Reduce or shorten your meetings
• Email: Create a culture that avoids email overload

Our standard Five Day Productivity Blitz involves 15 mins each morning, 15 mins each afternoon for a full week. We recommend your people do this learning before they start the four-day week.

What are your next steps?

• Self-evaluate your current thinking, actions and behaviours
• Reflect on a questions to enable you to take action and decide which next steps to prioritise
• Decide on practical actions to make a four-day week possible for your organisation