Category: Technology

Working four days a week is a productivity hack. A new study shows that employees don’t work harder if they’re working more. Instead, they just burn out and have less time for leisure activities. Take a cue from Silicon Valley tech companies, who have been quietly ditching their five-day workweek for years now. It might sound counter intuitive—but there are some powerful productivity hacks to be gleaned from those four day schedules. With traditional five-day workweeks becoming a thing of our past, we’re seeing more and more people gravitate towards four-day workweeks. We’ve seen everything from local businesses to Fortune 500 companies push for these shorter work weeks as a way to boost productivity among their workers. To find out how it works, I decided to take four days off of my nine day schedule and see if working half as much could actually double my output. Well, let’s find out, whether or not the idea of squeezed work week fits fine.