The four-day workweek is having a moment.
Several recent studies, including one that followed nearly 3,000 workers in the U.K., found when companies switched to a four-day workweek workers’ productivity, health, relationships and even finances improved. California Representative Mark Takano recently reintroduced the 32-hour Workweek Act in Congress as well, which would change the definition of a workweek from its now 40 hours if passed.
“While the concept of a four-day workweek is not brand new, there is no denying that there is great momentum and interest in this model,” says Doug Ebertowski, career expert at FlexJobs. The idea is gaining traction, he says, and “that coupled with the fact that employers have become much more creative in their approach to attracting great workers could mean that we may see the four-day work week here to stay.”
Whatever the future holds for the trend becoming a norm, some companies are implementing it as their go-to schedule right now. FlexJobs, which focuses on remote and flexible roles, identified a number of companies that have or are planning to adopt a shorter workweek. And they’re hiring. Here are 11 of those companies, including some of their open roles.
Augury
Augury is a software company that helps detect machine malfunctions through ultrasonic sensors.
Headquarters: Haifa, Israel
Open roles: enterprise customer success manager, regional controller, service engagement manager
Bolt Financial
Bolt Financial offers clients such as e-commerce merchants a payment platform for their online stores.
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Open roles: principal software engineer, senior machine learning engineer
DNSFilter
DNSFilter helps IT professionals filter unsafe web content and protect against digital threats.
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
Open roles: general counsel, senior manager of digital marketing
Do Big Things
Do Big Things is a creative digital agency that offers services such as website design and spokesperson training.
Headquarters: Mill Valley, California
Open roles: finance director, senior account executive
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform whose projects span films to board games.
Headquarters: Fully remote
Open roles: senior social media manager, director of comics outreach, senior product designer
Merit America
Merit America is a nonprofit that creates pathways to careers in tech through technical training.
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
Open roles: director of individual giving, revenue operations specialist
New Leaders
New Leaders provides equity-focused training to teachers, principals and other education figures.
Headquarters: New York, New York
Open roles: deputy chief officer of development
Panasonic
Panasonic is a global tech company with products that serve the energy, manufacturing and retail industries, among others.
Headquarters: Newark, New Jersey
Open roles: account manager of public safety, client relations specialist, field service technician
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere creates online polling, surveys, quizzes and more on behalf of its clients.
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Open roles: engineering manager, site reliability engineer
SambaSafety
SambaSafety sells software that keeps its clients and their communities’ tech safe.
Headquarters: Denver, Colorado
Open roles: onboarding specialist, senior data governance analyst, Salesforce administrator
thredUP
thredUP is an online thrift store.
Headquarters: Oakland, California
Open roles: finance data analyst, chief of staff, clothing warehouse associate
As far as trends in the list go, “they’re mainly nonprofit and tech companies,” says Yolanda Owens, career expert at The Muse. With the exception of Panasonic, they’re also smaller companies, “mainly under 1,000 employees,” she says.
“With the smaller organizations, adopting a four-day workweek makes sense because it’s easier to kind of put parameters around that,” she says. “I think it would be a bit more difficult for larger organizations to do that just because of the scope and scale.” The logistics of arranging that kind of flexibility for people in an array of roles could be tough, she says.
“I don’t think you’re going to see an Amazon adopting this anytime soon.”
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