Upon Further Inspection
Its actually good for a companys bottom line.
As a boss, you might not like the idea ofa four-day workweek.
And there are some upsides.
Also, toilet paper costs.
It helps the Adderall shortage:Giving people Friday off saves about 400 milligrams of Adderall a week.
Be Rosie the Riveter; do your part.
Its tough to hire new employees when other companies are offering four-day workweeks:Be honest with yourself.
The one pingpong table you got for 500 total employees has nothing on a four-day workweek.
Its a good excuse to cut vacation days:And vacation is where the real productivity gets lost.
No one can pick back up their PowerPoints and Excel spreadsheets after a full week of skiing.
Just in case karma is real:Youll want to hedge your risk.
All your employees have alreadyquiet-quit:This is possibly connected to the bonuses.
Or maybe the countrys general vibe.
If everyone is being lazy anyway, you may as well let them do it only four days/week.
Each word less appealing than the last.
What does it mean?
You didnt ask for everyone on your team to hate you!
You didnt want it to be like this!
You only planned to run this company for a couple years:It just paid too well.
Everyone talks about unions; no one talks about golden handcuffs.
The mortgage on that Hamptons place isnt going to pay itself!
What is the point of your company?Remember the TV showThe Office?
Some days, your job feels like that.
Except Michael Scott was more likable.
What is the point of any of it?You should have become a painter.
You had such dexterous fingers as a child.
This life is exhausting.
Youre completely burned out.
A four-day workweek means you, too, get Fridays off:You need a break.
This article was originally published onMarch 21, 2023
