How Your Biggest Workplace Issues Can
Be Solved With A 4-Day Work Week
presented by Jeff Harry
The 40-hour workweek is done. It is antiquated, counterproductive and doesn’t fit in the future of work. This arbitrary work week was instituted almost a century ago and hasn’t been altered ever since. What if the most significant workplace issues you face in recruiting, retention, burnout, profitability, productivity, and achieving a healthy work culture all could be solved by removing one day of work?
Major companies have implemented the 4-day work week to resounding success. Certain countries are considering making it a requirement. The organizations willing to be the first will have the easiest time recruiting and retaining staff because it shows that they prioritize their people over profit. Ironically, many of the companies implementing this have proven to be more profitable than their counterparts in the long run.
This workshop will explore the origins of the 40-hour work week and why it is becoming obsolete. We will dive into the benefits of a 4-day, 32-hour schedule and how to make the case to your leadership team. Finally, we will determine specific action steps you can do right now to test this theory yourself in your workplace.
We all know that we should be working smarter, not harder. How far are you willing to go to be at the forefront of the future of work?
Learning Objectives include:
- Understanding the origins of the 40-hour work week and why it has become obsolete
- Learn the benefits of a 4-day work week regarding recruiting, retention, burnout, performance, productivity, and work culture
- Explore how to implement a 4-day work week experiment to see if this model would work for your organization
- Practice making a case to your leadership on how this could benefit your organization for decades to come
Jeff Harry, Rediscover Your Play
Jeff Harry combines positive psychology and play to heal workplaces, help teams build psychological safety and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges by embracing a play-oriented approach to work. Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers and has been featured in the NY Times, Mashable, Upworthy, Huffpost, Shondaland, Wired, NPR, & Forbes. Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day. Over the past 15 years of facilitation and speaking, Jeff’s main goal has been to help work suck less by assisting leaders in building a playground workplace atmosphere that motivates their staff to do their most vibrant work.
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