Kickstarter Chief Executive Aziz Hasan had to embrace remote work during the initial stage of the pandemic. Now this boss wants to reward employees who stuck around with a new perk: the four-day workweek.
Starting next year the Brooklyn crowdfunding company plans to allow its employees to clock eight fewer hours over four days for no less pay, as part of a pilot study. Mr. Hasan’s bet is that the shortened schedule will allow workers to juggle work and home life while having more time for personal pursuits. He hopes Kickstarter’s staff of roughly 90 will be just as productive in carrying out the company’s mission of funding creative projects, if not more so.
“You can’t learn until you start doing it,” Mr. Hasan said. “People are curious what it will look like and if it will work.” Covid-19 is calling into question long-held views about the structure and nature of work, including—for some—the tradition of the five-day, 40-hour week. Remote arrangements freed employees of some constraints in 2020, but it also sparked burnout as some put in even longer hours. More are demanding an improved work-life balance as they return to the office in 2021.
“The experience of the pandemic and working from home has us beginning to question all the face-time requirements of the workplace,” said Ben Hunnicutt, a professor at the University of Iowa and the author of “Work Without End,” a study of past attempts to shorten the work week. “We can get our work done and go home.”
just put them on low carb diet...
no.
Yes please.
I think 4 hours is most appropriate, as long as 3 of those hours can be worked from home.
Why a Russian keyboard?
Anyone suggesting the four day work week is just looking for three day weekends.
Not going to happen. Neither is this big grand wish to work from home.
YES
My company has flex hours and shifts, 4-10, 9-80 (every other Friday off), and traditional 5-80. Works out really well, especially cause we can work from home, or office. I'm not burned out, and I feel I'm more productive. I've logged almost 200 hours overtime so far.
Work is hard . . . Jobs are tough . . . Life requires work and having a job . . . This is life . . . Be responsible . . . Have a family to enjoy and work hard for and job to provide for them . . . Enough of this selfishness of complaining and whining . . .
I’m working 9-10 hours every day regardless. So I might as well get a 3 day weekend. Or more pay. Or a manageable workload. At least I like my boss so there’s that.
Four day work weeks Hell, I would be happy with 5 days! But with all the lazy people out there, we (the working ones), have to make up for you!!
If the work is not engaging, it won’t matter how many days. Burn out is from a lot of things. If the root issue isn’t addressed nothing will change.
I think 4, 10 hr days is a great option for companies that can handle it operationally
Workers are burned out? Seems like workers have lost their drive. I show up day in and day out so my employees see how things are supposed to work, which is 5 days. We’re all tired at the end of the day, especially with children. I don’t complain, I just do it.
Im burned out due to working odd hours in the middle of the night and being tormented by a man online making false claims he wanted to come see me but needed money for a plane ticket. Its been horrible. I let him waste 2 years of my life waiting for him.
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