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Action Tip

Run a 90-day trial

Are you tempted by the idea of a 4-day week but still aren’t sure? Give yourself 90 days to run a pilot program: it’s easy enough to go back to how things were if the trial isn’t a success. And if it works, bingo!

Based on

Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less― Here’s How by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, PublicAffairs 2020

1/ DO THE PRELIMINARIES: is a 4-day week the right fit for your company?

It’s worth considering a shorter week if your organization is facing the challenges outlined below:

  • Your managers and leaders are suffering from burnout: you need to come up with new practices that will reduce stress and encourage colleagues to step back and take more rest.
  • Recruitment and retention are difficult in an ultra-competitive labor market with a fickle workforce.
  • The work-life balance is complicated: your employees have families and kids – and it would be absurd to ignore the fact.
  • An organizational culture that is barely sustainable: you are keen to build long-term reserves of collective knowledge.
  • You need to be more innovative and creative: your company must take a step back and time out so that productive new ideas can emerge (rather than squeezing creative employees like lemons, which ultimately results in threadbare ideas).
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Marianne Gerard
Published by Marianne Gerard
A graduate of HEC and the Master's program in Psychology at Université Paris Cité, Marianne combines her expertise in management and human sciences to produce written content in the fields of higher education, publishing, and corporate communication. She also works as a psychologist.