Introducing the 4-day work week

Just recently I stumbled over an entry at 37Signals, saying their experiment of introducing a 4-day work week is a success. That's an interesting idea, though I feel it's generally more about having a not-too-strict work environment anyway. For quite some time people were stressing the fact they're working 80 or 90 hours a week, assuming they're getting stuff done. I agree with Jason in that out of such a high number of hours, less than half are really productive.

We at 21Publish are still working 5 days a week, though I think we're also quite efficient. Yet it's difficult to actually give it a shot, I admit I'd be thinking we're not getting all the work done in that timeframe. And we've had plenty of work in the past. Some projects included customization, though we have updated much of our backend to make it more stable and fast. Some new features are about to come as well, though we'll probably wait a few more weeks to get the updates rolled out smoothly.

Have a good weekend everyone.