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Ask HN: What companies currently have 4 day work weeks?

13 points by charliebwrites ↗ HN
4 day work weeks seem like an incredible perk.

Last year there were a few articles going around HN about larger orgs trying them out and finding them productive

Have any startups, or other companies embraced this as a way to attract talent? Who's doing this today?

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paulcole
Where I work, we started doing an on-call person from each team for urgent issues on Fridays so we can still be available 5 days a week to customers while internally being mostly 4 days a week. So far it seems like a fair trade.

Digital marketing agency not software development though. 30-person company.

softwaredoug
At Shopify, we would have 4 day work weeks over the summer. My experience was we compressed a lot of work into 4 days, working longer hours to get our goals done.

I honestly don't mind a compressed, intense 4 day work / 3 days off cycle, but I don't think I did less total work.

mikhael28
Interesting to hear, thanks for sharing.
ActorNightly
Unofficially, any large software company with lax RTO/WFH policies has had this for quite some time. Very few people work full 8 hours a day at these.
HandsFreeFap
Most do. Where i work has me on 5s right now just due to what works for me. I do 3/2 split RTO. But a lot of my team are 2/2 in office WFH.