Advisory Board July 24, 2025
Shifting to a four-day workweek without pay reductions led to increased job performance, satisfaction, and overall employee health, according to a recent study published in Nature Human Behaviour.
Study details
For the study, researchers at Boston College tracked 2,896 employees across 141 organizations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom over a six-month period. Each company was given roughly eight weeks to restructure its workflow to maintain productivity before opting into the trial of a four-day workweek.
Two weeks before the start of the trial, each employee was asked a series of questions to evaluate their well-being, including, “Does your work frustrate you?” and “How would you rate your mental health?” The employees were...
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