Whitepaper: The Four Day Week

Andrew Barnes, founder of New Zealand’s largest corporate trustee company, Perpetual Guardian (and recently creator of website, Four-Day Week), has become something of an evangelist for the wider adoption of a four-day, rather than five-day working week.

Whitepaper: The Four Day Week 1

In this first whitepaper, he reveals the results of the famous experiment he implemented last year, to challenge assumptions about productivity through a company-wide (290 people) trial involving working for just 30 hours a week, but being paid for 37.

Amongst the mass of data he collected, results in the whitepaper include:

  • Increases in sense of employee empowerment from 66% to 86%
  • Job performance maintained in four days rather than five
  • Reported stress levels fell from 45% to 38%