Does the Four-Day Workweek Just Expose Inefficient Workplaces?

Steve Glaveski
5 min readJul 8, 2021

Back in 2018, I wrote about my team’s six-hour workday experiment for Harvard Business Review.

We found that the shorter days acted as a forcing function, prompting us to waste less time sending cat gifs in Slack, effectively prioritizing our work, automating and outsourcing rudimentary tasks, and spending more time in deep concentration.

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Steve Glaveski

CEO of Collective Campus. HBR writer. Author of Time Rich, and Employee to Entrepreneur. Host of Future Squared podcast. Occasional surfer.