Earlier this year, the City of Golden in Colorado partnered with 4 Day Week Global in the development and evaluation of a 4 day week pilot program, where all employees at Golden Police Department (GPD) moved from a 40-hour to a 32-hour workweek.

An exercise in boosting productivity, health and family cohesion. In January 2022, Sharjah Government implemented a 4 day week scheme, making them the first local government in the United Arab Emirates to shorten the work week. Read on to learn about the impact this had on job performance, employee mental health and the local economy.

Kickstarter is the leading crowdfunding platform for funding creative projects. Each year, they help fund about 20,000 creative projects across art, film, design, games, and publishing and drive about $700M in funding through our online platform. Their Chief Strategy Officer, Jon Leland, tells us how their 4 day week experience has been since launching it in 2021.

The Walk is an integrated marketing agency, based in Australia, working with leading brands around the world. Its co-founder and digital director, Nick Cantor shares their learnings from participating on a 4 Day Week Global pilot program and offers words of advice to those considering the move.

Trio Media is a full service digital marketing agency based in Leeds, UK. They help clients across a variety of industries with website design and builds, SEO, PPC and social media, along with supporting their overall digital marketing strategies. Their CEO, Claire Daniels shares her insights and experience of participating on 4 Day Week Global’s UK trial in 2022.

Momentum Mental Health is a community mental health service with a team of 14 staff based in Queensland, Australia, who recently took part in our pilot program. Their CEO, Debbie Bailey shares her motivation for joining, lessons learned from the challenges faced, and words of advice to other business leaders considering making the switch.

In February 2022, 4 Day Week Global launched the first of several coordinated international trials. It involved 614 employees across Ireland, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. The research involved surveying employees at the beginning, midpoint and end of the trial, compiling time-use diaries of employees’ days off, collecting monthly data on organisational performance and interviewing employees and managers at the end of the trial.

ICE Group is a growing, dynamic and vibrant multi-service company. We regard change as an opportunity for further development. Our commitment is a never-ending quest for perfection, providing even greater value and service to our customers and greater prosperity for each of us.

After years of dreaming, months of preparation and with much excitement and anticipation, Consult moved to a 4 Day Work Week in June. The 4DWW movement is building and for good reason – many people and many organisations are ready for change and a new way of working.

During lockdown, my team was incredibly productive. But as the boundaries between work and personal time and space continued to blur, and our work weeks became a relentless cycle of email checking and Zoom overload.

I watched as we gradually lost sight of the big challenges we needed to solve to materially move the business forward. These challenges require mind space, clarity and creativity — actually sitting down and brainstorming and reflecting — to solve. And they were getting pushed to the backburner.

I reached out to people across the company and listened to how they were feeling and the impact the pandemic was having on them. And I had a realisation. You don’t build a category-defining company by just checking things off lists. Especially not when you’re a venture-backed company that’s got investors with big expectations. We needed a culture shock to get people thinking differently.

In May 2019 David Stone, founder and CEO, decided to run a trial in his international recruitment business - MRL Consulting.

The six-month trial for all 54 employees was put in place by Stone who wanted to increase employees’ productivity and drive them to achieve five days’ work within four days.

It all begins with an idea.

To be brutally honest, I given all the goods and bads, pasted screenshots of our Surveys, used pictures, stats and data for this report. It is a must read for any law firm curious about #4dayworkweek idea, or any business in general.