The Case for a Four-Day Week: What the Research Shows

About this episode

This episode explores the research-backed case for a four-day working week and its implications for HR leaders.

Most organisations are asking how to get more from their people. But what if the real question is how to get more from the time they spend at work?   In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by  Joe O'Connor , founder of Worktime Revolution, and  Jared Lindzon , future-of-work journalist and author, to explore the research-backed case for the four-day working week, and what it means for how HR leaders design, lead and transform work.  Join them as they discuss:  Why the five-day working week is a relic of the industrial age   What the evidence from global pilots shows about productivity, wellbeing and retention  Why organisations moving to a four-day week are also becoming faster AI adopters  What it actually takes to make the transition work - and why culture and trust are the real foundations  How HR leaders can shift the conversation from top-down mandate to shared, enthusiastic change  This episode is sponsored by TechWolf.   The world of work is being rewritten faster than HR systems can keep up. Skills age in months. Roles get redesigned…

People in this episode

Host: David Green

Guests: Joe O'Connor, Jared Lindzon

Topics covered

• four-day work week
• productivity
• wellbeing
• HR leadership
• work culture
• AI adoption

Keywords

• four-day week
• work productivity
• employee wellbeing
• HR transformation
• AI in HR
• work culture
• trust in organizations

Sponsors

TechWolf

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Worktime Revolution, HSBC, AMD, T-Mobile, GSK, ServiceNow, Pfizer

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