Our 4 Day Work Week

To help our team members do their best work, we wanted to give them more time for themselves

We recognise that employee benefits are very personal and look different for everyone

As an employer, we were seeking greater productivity, and fewer absences, that would come from our team having more energy, greater job satisfaction, and pride in working with us

We wanted to ensure our benefits were as equitable as possible, particularly knowing that women often take on more care responsibilities

There's substantial research demonstrating the value of compressing working hours and giving workers more paid time off

We ultimately wanted this to lead to better results

We took a staged approach over a year and a half

We began by trialling a nine-day fortnight

After seeing positive results, we moved to trialling every Friday off for six months

We established clear metrics to track our progress and held regular qualitative conversations across different teams

This approach meant that we officially launched our 4DWW at the beginning of January 2025 as we were confident it would be a success (and it is!)

We didn't reduce anyone's pay or cut their existing holiday entitlement

We require employees to be in the office two days per week, with one of those days set as a company-wide office day

We launched revised guides focusing on more intentional communication practices

We acknowledge that we work harder during our four days of the week, because we still have ambitious goals, and make this clear during the hiring process

We take a robust approach to measuring success, tracking everything from team wellbeing to business performance

We maintain the same ambitious business goals with clear commercial outcomes

We track daily and weekly activity metrics through Hubspot dashboards that everyone can monitor

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