Opinion

July 7, 2021

Want to increase productivity? Embrace the four-day week

After the lockdown grind, we gave employees Fridays off and saw benefits for employee productivity and wellbeing.


Anastasia Leng

4 min read

The Welcome to the Jungle team implemented a four-day workweek after a 2019 trial. Credit: Welcome to the Jungle

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. 

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