Juliet Schor talked to Michelle Peng in Time Magazine about the 4-day week trials, and the results she and her team at Boston College are seeing. Of course there are the usual gains in productivity, happiness, etc., but there’s also this important nugget:
one CEO told us that they’ve had a very good experience, but it’s really been less about the time and the number of days in the office than about the fact that they took this opportunity to totally rethink how they were doing things. Quite a few companies talk about that—the opportunity to look anew at how they spend their time and priorities and figuring out what’s creating value for the organization.