How to switch to a four-day workweek
There is no way or any single reason to switch to a four-day workweek.
It's so nice to read lofty stories about changing the way companies will work in the future, like hybrid work, remote work, four-day workweek, etc.
The only reason that is difficult to comprehend is that all of these funny developers and digital entrepreneurs decided that the work they do is so difficult and important that they all require all of these shiny benefits.
Really guys? What is the difference in the work you do compared with the work of hardware or oil engineers, builders or lawyers? Heck, you are just building websites, sometimes complex websites, but still websites and web services, and the reason they are so popular today does not add any additional value to your work.
A story about the one of the most vocal supporters of the four-day workweek. It is so fancy to post peremptory tweets about extremely productive growth when you are fed up with an enormous amount of money while your company does not even make a profit. It is nice and fun to run a company on such a model, but no work means no money, that's all.
Working is one of the best rewards ever. Profitable business is another sweet reward. Burning funds and posting witty tweets is not work or business.
The natural thing to do is work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course. I have no suggestion which goes beyond accepting in its fullest this principle of nature. I take it for granted that we must work. All that we have done comes as the result of a certain insistence that since we must work it is better to work intelligently and forehandedly; that the better we do our work the better off se shall be. All of which I conceive to be merely elemental common sense.