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Some great insights in this The Wall Street Journal article about how to make the four-day work week work. Chief among them is leadership involvement in looking holistically at all the way employees spend time (or waste time.) A few other tips that some companies and leaders already are employing: 1. Eliminate unnecessary meetings and make meetings truly optional for those not needed. 2. Pick up the phone if you can't quickly resolve an issue in 3 emails or less. (Had a former boss who lived by this rule and have tried to employ myself.) 3. Regularly assess and tweak what you're doing to ensure it's working for the business and its people. 4. Set aside dedicated time for people to be creative and think. One thing I didn't see in here and wonder about is whether a company could have two four-day work shifts, so there's still coverage every day. Perhaps half of employees work Mon-Thursday and the others work Tues-Friday? And maybe that rotates week to week but would enable there to be coverage five days a week for companies that need it. Thoughts?
