Science proves the 4-day workweek prevents burnout, helps productivity

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I've been working a four-day week for years, and science proves that everyone should get on board

Mark Bolino, an organizational behavior professor at the University of Oklahoma who is researching fatigue and the workweek, agrees the four-day workweek's underlying benefits include higher productivity and well-being. Nearly half of employees in the UK trial reported being more satisfied than when they started, and"employees who are satisfied with their jobs are more engaged, less likely to quit, and more likely to go the extra mile," Bolino said.

"What we're finally seeing now is a return to a vision of work that is more balanced, sustainable, and follows closer to grand historical trends of work time reduction," Pang told me. Calvin Newport, a computer-science professor at Georgetown University who is the author of"Deep Work," acknowledges that shortening the workweek could help stem the alarming spike in burnout and overwork, but he told me that because knowledge workers are evaluated by how much they get done and not the hours they clock, organizations ultimately will have to reduce workloads to fit these new arrangements.

 

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