In March and April of 2020, work and life as we knew it was changing. I surveyed our team members (all 84 of whom are spread out across the globe) to understand the best way to help them cope with so many things shifting at once. I especially wanted to hear from parents about what […]
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As April comes to a close, and we look ahead to another month where our global team is living in various forms of lockdown and isolation, I decided that for the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time
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In May, our entire team experimented with a 4-day workweek. The intention of this experiment was to help us all manage the stress and changes to routine caused by living through a global pandemic. We initially rolled out the 4-day work week experiment for only one month, with the main goal of reducing teammates’ stress.
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LAKE COUNTRY, British Columbia, Jan. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Beelineweb, a boutique provider of online marketing services, has made 20-percent shorter workweeks the new standard for every employee. After testing the concept four times over the past four years, the company is moving forward with permanent three-day weekends. Starting this year, every staff member now works
In 1908, a New England cotton mill instituted the first rule that Jewish workers would not have to work on Saturdays, their Sabbath. A few years later, in 1926, Henry Ford opted to close his factories on Sunday, too—and so began the five-day work week as we know it. For nearly a century, businesses have
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