For many companies, four-day workweeks going from pipe dream to serious consideration - San Francisco Business Times

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Four-day workweek continues to grow amid labor crunch. Here's where the movement stands right now.

Many workers are gearing up for a shortened Thanksgiving workweek, but new data suggests a significant number of companies are considering shortening their workweeks on a permanent basis.from Ernst & Young LLP said they have either started using a four-day workweek or are in the process of implementing one. The survey included more than 500 C-suite and business leaders across multiple industries in the United States.

EY chalked up the growing interest in four-day workweeks to employers adapting their work patterns to attract employees who are searching for more flexible options. Many companies are also taking advantage of the That was the case for Thomas Carpe, CEO and principal architect of Baltimore-based SharePoint and Microsoft cloud technology developer Liquid Mercury Solutions.his company was originally kicking around the idea of a four-day workweek before the pandemic in late 2019. At the time, he thought about it as a “wouldn’t-it-be-nice” kind of benefit. But in early 2021, Carpe said they realized there was a window of opportunity to define what the “new normal of work would be.

“Either we were going to set the terms for what the new work/life balance in an all-remote world was going to be, or it would be set for us. So, that’s really when the discussion of making this change got serious,” said Carpe, who also shared some of his

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