What is your opinion on a 4-day work week? Do you think people are generally more productive? Will consulting ever adopt this?

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Probably would be more productive. Happier employees, paid more per hour. I think we’ve entered into an endless work cycle that is not efficient.

Bucking the 5 day work week trend will be more difficult than actually getting an optimal amount of work done in 4 days.

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The Dutch already do this and have found that productivity remained the same. I would LOVE this! In fact, I’m happy to work more than my usual 50 hours in 4 days if it means I get 3 days without work.

Our industry will be one of the last to adopt it. We will always lag the rest of the economy because we’re at the mercy of the clients.

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The people I know who are on that flexible schedule love it. They seem to be more productive. However, if management sees it’s not a benefit for them and you’re not meeting goals, they will make you go back to the standard 5-day week. Personally, I don’t know if I could do 10 hour days. I barely like doing 8. 😂

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Consulting will do what we always do: follow. If our clients/competitors institute 4 day work weeks, we will likely follow but don’t hold your breath for us to lead the charge.

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Even then, I doubt it. They'll just view the 5 day as a day for internal meetings.

Many of my clients had summer Fridays, but yet here I was working through COVID. Would have been a prime opportunity for the firm to give just one Friday off. The Friday before labor day would have made perfect sense.

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probably never an option for junior folks

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You all get a five day work week?

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I did this on a contract I was on once, and I ended up sleeping the entire day Friday. It didn’t really change my weekends, my productivity was about the same.

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Productivity isn’t the goal for most people on the weekend, it’s rest, time with family, doing hobbies, etc. if you slept all day, that just says your body needed the rest.

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Are we talking four 10-hour days, or four 8-hour days?

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