Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by moeamaya on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:49AM (#21443453)

We do 4-day (32 hour) work weeks at Monograph, and we've been doing it for 3 years now. I believe we're one of the only companies in SF that are advocates for working less, but more productively.

Similar to Microsoft, we only have one 45-min meeting each week and then everything else is heads down work.

To maintain efficiency, we also have strict Slack protocols in place to keep everyone in deep work throughout the day. (No @ or DMs, everyone checks Slack at 11am and 4pm).

The major downside so far has been customer support, which the founders still manage to maintain our response rate.

Oh and we're hiring! If you're frontend engineer and like 4-day weeks + side projects, reach out directly [email protected]

https://monograph.io/jobs/frontend/

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Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by TomK32 on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:02PM (#21443650)

Re customer support: A company-wide four-day week doesn't mean that everyone has to work the same four days. Actually, there might be people who'd prefer their weekend to be Sunday to Tuesday for some obscure reason.

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Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by AhtiK on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:57AM (#21443577)

The team behind Todoist came out with a product called Twist, meant for more async and productivity focused approach and directly going against Slack distractions. I wonder if there are companies who have tried it in a bit bigger scale or why isn't Twist more known?

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Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by moeamaya on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:21PM (#21443876)

Thanks for the suggestion, it does seem like a compelling product. Your same questions about working at a bigger scale also give me pause to move our team off of Slack.

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Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by andy_ppp on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:50PM (#21444208)

Will you consider people from London who would need a H1B?

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Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by mylons on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:23PM (#21443889)

right on.

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