The biggest ever four-day workweek trial kicks off in the UK

As an employee, I would happily take a 20% pay cut for 20% fewer hours of work. Granted this is coming from a highly paid tech worker.

As an employer, I would happily hire 20% more people to do the same number of hours of work. There's additional overhead for sure, but the extra voice in the room can be extremely valuable, especially for a small-to-medium sized startup.

This seems like a win-win for a lot of organizations.

There are now 200+ companies piloting a 4 day work week

And 150+ more have already made the switch e.g. https://4dayweek.io/companies

I don't know what the future of work looks like

But I know it ISN'T 9-5, five days a week.

I think we need to start differentiating between a "4-day, 40-hour workweek" and a "32-hour workweek". I've been calling the former "four tens" - i.e. four 10-hour days.

While four-tens is definitely preferable to the traditional five-eights, it seems like a shitty compromise. The whole point of the 4 day workweek is to make strides towards a saner, more balanced lifestyle. Packing more work into fewer days doesn't move us in the right direction.