What a four-day week actually measures.
The debate is usually framed around hours. The more interesting question is about trust.
Placeholder draft. The opening will set out the usual framing of the four-day week as a question of hours and output, and why that framing leaves something out.
Placeholder draft continues. This section will argue that a shorter week mostly changes how work gets judged: by results instead of by presence.
Placeholder draft continues. A further section will look at what that shift asks of managers and of teams, and why it’s harder than it sounds.
Placeholder draft continues. The close will suggest a better question to ask of any workplace experiment: what is it really measuring?