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Aug 31, 2021

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

Aug 31, 2021

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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Richard Meredith

@rtm223

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@hannahnicklin

Is there a reason why 4x8 hour days rather than 5x6 hour days (I ask because that's my current setup). Was it staff preference, or evidence based, or just not a consideration?

10:36 AM · Sep 1, 2021

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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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Also as a company that scales up from me plus co-owners (2/3 who don’t work day to day with us) this decision was made in between projects so only between 4 of us. It was the version we wanted abs now recruit to.