My husband implemented the four-day workweek (4 days / 10 hours) for his company in 2024 and it proves to be popular with the employees. I know there are many workweek variations, so I’m curious which one you’d prefer the most.
Software dev: 4 hours a day for 4 days.
I can up it to 6 hours but over that it’s just unproductive IMO.
Nice, I’m ops, I would’ve said the same!
Came here to say 20 hrs/week 4 days/week.
“We don’t care when or how you work, just get your work done and be available for calls when needed.”
Easier said than done but there are a few positions where this sort of thing is possible.
The less, the better
Zero is ideal
I found 6 hours a day with flexible working times quite comfortable, working from home monday to friday. 10 hours would be way too long for me, can’t even really stay concentrated on work for 8 hours.
This! Wouldn’t complain about 6 hours and 4 work days tho:)
I find that 4 days with 8 hours don’t really cut my productivity. In fact, I am able to use 32 hours more effectively than 40.
Three twelves. I’m all for cramming a 40hr work week into 3 days. Same amount of work, and so you are going to be trashed those three days and a half a day after, but it’s 4 days off a week.
Allows for work life balance if it’s block scheduling. If you have a scheduler who throws 12hr shifts out all over the week though, it can destroy your life.
There’s a lot of a jobs that depend on other people, or significant concentration, or weather/sunlight where this isn’t at all feasible. Interesting answer though, I also thought along the same lines when I was in my 20s but now I would hate that schedule
3-4 hours a day 5 days a week worked fine for me when I was working. Meeting hours mandatory and the rest flexible. Remote work. With on-site work short-hours-more-days is more problematic because you have to spend time getting there and getting home, choosing less days with more hours is an obvious optimization.
The ideal schedule for me is one that allows flexibility. How many hours they want? 40? 60? Okay, as long as I’m able to manage the time I’m fine with it. Usually I prefer at least one weekday free.
I had to change to part time work because medical reasons, but they didn’t actually care what hours I worked. After a bit of experimentation, I found 9am to 1pm, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday to be my perfect work week.
I did four 10s the last decade, but a promotion moved me to five 8s. I tell people I’d give $5k a year to go back to four 10s.
It depends on the job. For research I prefer everyday but not too many hours.
I have a 10-8-8-10 work week. 4 days on. 3 days off. I love it. And it’s in a retail environment too which is like a holy grail sometimes.
I prefer 4 days 10 hours. Waking up, getting ready, and commuting are all so energy consuming and I’d rather not do that as much. I’m actually rested after 3 days off as opposed to 2. I wouldn’t be opposed to 3 days 12 hours.
I work a 9/80 currently (so 9 hours a day every Monday through Thursday and then alternating 8 hours every other Friday with a Friday off) and I have grown to love it so much I think I would have an extremely hard time taking a five day workweek job. I also think I would easily work for 10s if it were an option as a constant three day weekend would be wonderful.
I have done my own research on my productivity levels and found that I pretty much get nothing done on working Fridays anyhow, leading me to believe a 35 ish hour four day workweek would be more than sufficient to get everything I currently do done. That’s notwithstanding the fact that during each day I swing back and forth between high and low productivity too, so really something closer to like 25 hours a week of total work is accurate. So something like a certain minimum mandatory set of hours with flexible time to get your tasks done as others have suggested would be the ultimate solution.
3-4 days fully remote would be ideal. Flexible hours too, define a core block of time for people to have meetings if needed.
