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Hannah Nicklin 🌹
@hannahnicklin
If you’re thinking about advocating for or moving to a 4 day work week - beyond all the studies that say it’s better for wellbeing & productivity - do you have any questions about it for someone who’s been running a company like that for ~1.5 years (me)? I’ll write it up!
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Joe Russ
@Mografi_Joe
Question: Does anyone have any recommendations of books or talks on how to implement a 4-day work week? I can find lots of articles talking about why it's good, but none about how companies successfully implemented it.
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Hannah Nicklin 🌹
@hannahnicklin
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It felt very simple and self evident to me, and I didn’t really feel like anything was difficult to navigate, just a different set of production & logistical challenges, but I would love to answer questions in a DGF blog post if others feel unsure about it!
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Hannah Nicklin 🌹
@hannahnicklin
There's no way a company of our size & project focus, with the other large changes that coincided (remote work, pandemic) could make a rigorous assessment of impact, but we can tell you how we did it. So please read it with that in mind ✨
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Hannah Nicklin 🌹
@hannahnicklin
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@johnnemann
This: - we have a flat rate - employees paid what we were for the 5 day week for 4 - contractor wage is the employee gross annual wage divided by worked days based on a 4 day week - we don’t have any hourly workers, contractors bill in fractions of days down to 0.25
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Joe Russ
@Mografi_Joe
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@hannahnicklin
Awesome to know Hannah! Yah, I'm on board with all the positive aspects. I want to know how teams have changed their day-to-day approaches to actually do the same amount ( or close? ) of work but work 8-10 hours less a week. Don't know how to structure that question, sorry.
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Hannah Nicklin 🌹
@hannahnicklin
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@Mografi_Joe
In some ways I don’t think doing the same amount of work is something we could reasonably judge (tho studies back that up) as we moved into a new project with a new team. I also don’t think work is more important than well-being. But it coincided with full remote transition too…
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Hannah Nicklin 🌹
@hannahnicklin
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@rtm223
We actually don’t stipulate 8 hour days. In our handbook it says sometimes a day’s work is 5 or 6 hours, creative coding and creative work can be exhausting. And playing games can be research. So technically we have both.
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Ev 🇪🇺
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I really like how this has the added value of being much more inclusive - in Judaism (and Islam I believe) the weekend is Friday-Saturday.
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