4-day workweeks can boost happiness

At non-profits, and camps, and church organizations, we’re used to doing more with less. What might that look like with actual work days?

Some companies have started exploring shortened work weeks, and not noticing a drop in productivity.

When employees are given a good reason to work harder, they often focus more ruthlessly on their most important tasks. Barnes found that even though weekly working hours were cut by 20 percent, employees’ time spent on nonwork websites fell by 35 percent. It also helped that employees had more time outside of work to manage the rest of their lives, so nonwork responsibilities were less likely to intrude on the workday.

What could this look like in your setting? And what ramifications could a shortened work week have on our retreat centers or camp programs?