Where Do Canadians Stand on the 4-Day Work Week? 9 Community Members Share Their Thoughts

[bondai_article_user user_id=”114″ description=”My employer provides us with the opportunity to work a 4-day work week in the summer. We also close the office a half-hour earlier. My team loves the switch to the 4-day work week.”]
[bondai_article_user user_id=”496″ description=”It would be a dream to move to a 4-day work week. Unfortunately, we are in the insurance industry, and it just isn’t feasible for us.”]
[bondai_article_user user_id=”94″ description=”My company is discussing the 4-day work week. It will be very difficult because we run payroll on Fridays.”]
[bondai_article_user user_id=”96″ description=”We have not switched to a 4-day week. We are customer-facing and provide services to the local community, so reducing our work week overall is challenging and not likely possible. Our organization is, however, very flexible with work schedules, and there are options for individual staff to have reduced hours for periods of time up to a year, with approval.”]
[bondai_article_user user_id=”1898″ description=”We typically go to a 4-day work week during the summer–some shuffling is required to ensure that all Finance/Payroll gets processed on time, but everyone’s willing to work together to make it happen. Could we do it year-round? Not sure, as there are periods that require not only a 5-day week but extra hours on those days.”]
[bondai_article_user user_id=”1043″ description=”I am interested in a 4-day work week. I work for a small company, and I am on-time with deadlines by Friday, and I am looking for extra work. The 4-day work week would be great for mental health and getting things done. When they tested the 4-day work week with some companies in Ontario, there was some positive feedback, including high employee morale, and so were those companies’ sales. Customer satisfaction was much higher during this time also.”]
[bondai_article_user user_id=”2739″ description=”I would love to have this option, but it has not been offered to anyone in our company.”]
[bondai_article_user user_id=”2742″ description=”In a previous position, we worked 15 minutes extra a day from September to the end of June. This allowed us to take 7 Fridays off in the summer and reduce the hours for the other 4 days of the week by 1/2 hour. I feel that positivity went up, and our work did not suffer from this. Overall, the culture was great during the summer months. Right now, at my current position, I have one employee working a 4-day work week, but they work 4 10-hour days to have a 4-day work week.”]
[bondai_article_user user_id=”290″ description=”While my work is very flexible and supportive of personal time and has a great PTO policy, I would gladly work a bit more every day to bring my week down to 4 days.”]