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

Posted by charliebwrites on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:24AM
from the ask-hn dept.
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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Re:Ask HN: What companies currently have 4 day work weeks? by jsyang00 on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:55AM (#39735311)
Stata I think?
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Re:Ask HN: What companies currently have 4 day work weeks? by paulcole on Sunday March 17, 2024 @02:43PM (#39736839)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: What companies currently have 4 day work weeks? by softwaredoug on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:07AM (#39744768)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: What companies currently have 4 day work weeks? by mikhael28 on Monday March 18, 2024 @01:23PM (#39747191)
Interesting to hear, thanks for sharing.
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Re:Ask HN: What companies currently have 4 day work weeks? by 0xE1337DAD on Monday March 18, 2024 @03:29PM (#39748858)
Lockheed martin
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Re:Ask HN: What companies currently have 4 day work weeks? by ActorNightly on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @05:30AM (#39754093)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: What companies currently have 4 day work weeks? by HandsFreeFap on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @09:46AM (#39755691)
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.
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