4 Day Week Studio is a consultancy and digital workspace for organizations designing and trialing 4-day workweeks. It’s run by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of Shorter: Work Better Smarter and Less—Here’s How, and designer of national 4-day week trials in the UK, US, Australia, and elsewhere.

We run courses for and consult with organizations that wants to implement a 4-day week; provide business intelligence for consultants; and lecture about the 4-day workweek and the future of work. We also offer several free resources:

• A free version of our design course;
• An assessment tool for organizations thinking about adopting a 4-day week;
• A collection of case studies of organizations that have moved to 4-day weeks.
• A list of first-hand accounts of 4-day week trials written by leaders who’ve done it themselves;
• A playbook for persuading your boss to try a 4-day week, and a matrix for weighing the pros and cons

About the Studio

We call ourselves a studio for two reasons.

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First, there’s a strong design thinking tradition in the 4-day week movement.

Many 4-day week early adopters were design firms, who showed that the same methods pioneered in Silicon Valley to rethink things and experiences can also be used to redesign time. Design thinking puts users and customers first, encourages an open and experimental mindset, and offers a set of tools for investigating user needs and creating products that fit their lives. We bring that same sensibility into our work.

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Second, we believe in learning by doing.

Anybody can describe the steps organizations take to get to a 4-day week; several years after we pioneered the first programs teaching companies how to design trials, that’s now more or less public knowledge: in fact, we have our own curated page of best first-hand accounts of 4-day week trials.

In contrast, we take clients and organizations through a proven set of exercises that yield a roadmap, policies, and tools; that move leaders from transactional to transformational styles; that promote an experimental mindset; and provide clear measures of success. We’re not a lecture hall, we’re a workshop. And no one has more experience helping organizations design their 4-day weeks than we do.

Our services

Shaping the 4-day week since 2020!

Free 4-day week resources

Students and others doing research on the 4-day week, and leaders gathering data and trying to figure out if it could work in their organization, are welcome to check out the following: