 Welcome to The Journey. I have a question for you. Is a four-day work week right for your business? Yes, Emma. It is. I agree. We're looking into, hey, how can we increase employee productivity and just like the overall experience? How can we enhance that for our employees? Yeah, I love working for GoDaddy, but honestly, the best part is the unlimited snacks. And just that little bit makes me so much more happier to come to work. Yeah, definitely. And if they can just add to the snacks, like, hey, you get Monday off once in a while, increase productivity, and overall satisfaction. That's a win-win right there. Also, I know companies are questioning not just the hours, do we cut back, do the four-day work week, but also just increase pay, more money, also more vacation time. I know that works really well for me whenever I come back from like a little vacay or get that bonus. I swear, my productivity goes through the roof. You hear that, boss? Give me a raise. It's funny how that works. Yeah. Another thing to consider, I start off just thinking like, oh, companies could go to a four-day work week. But another thing that I've seen is companies actually just increase the amount of hours or decrease the amount of hours in the day as well. I mean, for me, I think I'd prefer like the three-day weekend, but what about you? I agree. I'd rather work more in a single day, because I'm already pretty much doing that anyway most of the day. You're already there. Exactly. You've done the commute. Yeah, why not have a day where you can stay at home and your pajamas, you don't have to leave? That's what I would prefer. Totally. Or your robe. That's what I do. So let's talk about why businesses may be considering a four-day work week. Those millennials, it's really millennials, generation Zers, they all started to realize how important that work-life balance was to their overall mental health. I know when I come back from a nice vacation, like we had talked about, you're so refreshed and you're ready to get to work. But if you're going home and you're stressed every single day, you're overworked, you're coming in and you're not really at your best self. Definitely. Yeah, I noticed when I started to kind of ship towards this four-day work, like in my personal life, four-day work week, I noticed just the people I was around and my relationships, family, friends, et cetera. Like I was a more balanced person. And millennials, like myself, like we're super in tune with that. We don't want to isolate ourselves from our family and our friends. So I think we're onto something with cutting back the hours of the days of the week on the work thing. Yeah, and if you come into work with the right mindset, you're so much more better at your job and you're just exactly. So some businesses, when thinking about productivity and how to increase it, they've actually put some research into this and they've seen lowering the work day to, this is shocking, three hours. Three hours of work a day. I would be often an hour. That is actually increased productivity. All right, Emma, it's time for us to go clock out. I know, so we're done. All right, so now I want to dive into the pros and cons of a four-day work week. One that comes to mind, super obvious. Less time commuting, whether you're doing public transportation or you're in your sweet whip. Less time doing that, all for it. Yeah, and you can also save money as a business whenever it comes to heating, electricity, AC, any of those things. Save the environment. Also, another pro, you get to spend more time with your family or your friends or your pets. I know my dwarf rabbit, Jack. He definitely appreciates when I'm around more. And I think that's the same for cats and dogs and animals of sort. But definitely think about your family and actually having you around more and what that does for your own mental stability. Yeah, my dog, Lainey, is definitely pro four-day work week. Yeah, more time at the park with mom, more quality time on the walks, longer walks. It's only fair. Also, aside from pets, back to us. Adulting, one thing that stresses me out about a five-day work week that I have to commute to and back from is when am I gonna fit in other things, going to the doctor, trying to stay healthy, just making other appointments, like my lease on my car is ending soon. And that used to stress me out so much when I had a five-day work week. I was like, what am I gonna fit this in to go return this vehicle that I don't want anymore? But things like that, adulting. Right, and you don't wanna spend your whole weekend taking care of those adulting things. Then you don't even get a weekend and you feel like it's over with and then you're having to try and schedule in those doctor's appointments throughout the week. Yeah, and then all of a sudden it's Sunday and you get the Sunday scaries. Do you ever get the Sunday scaries? Sunday scaries are real. It's a real thing. And then Monday you wake up and you're just like, anxiety! And you didn't have that time to reset. So you go into work, productivity, meow, decrease on the decline. And one advantage, if you are considering a longer work day, like 10 hours so that you can have a four-day work week, is that you have more employees there to take care of all of those different opportunities. So I know I work in Texas and so there's people and clients that we need to talk to and all the way from the East Coast to the Pacific Coast. So, time zones. Exactly. So whenever you're staying later, you can handle more of those Pacific Coast clients. And earlier would be more Eastern time. Yeah, Hawaii, that's like five, six hours. Is it, I just remember calling Hawaii later because I'm on Pacific time and I would call Hawaii later in the day when I was a sales rep. Oh yeah, and they're just waking up, it's great. They're starting their day. So research shows that actually the 32-hour work week resulted in zero change of productivity. Yeah, so it's not always necessary to be in the office for 40 hours just because everyone else does it, right? So if they tell me I have to be there five days out of the week and I have the same amount of work to do, I'm just gonna make it last throughout five days. If I have four days to do the same amount of work, I'm gonna be a lot more productive and work with the times that work for me. So this reminds me of when I was on a psych course in college and they were talking about productivity with how students studied and what they got done in their day. And it was actually interesting because moms, you think, oh my gosh, they're so busy. Where will they find the time to study? But because they already knew going into it, like I gotta plan around my kid, picking up from school, dropping off at school, lunches, et cetera, they actually got more done. Yeah, they're basically super women. Yeah, basically super women within a timeframe. Also, better attendance. You only have to be there four days. So there tends to be an increase in actual attendance with that versus a five-day work week. Now, I guess we gotta kind of talk about some of the cons as well. Proposing cons. Yeah, we'll be fair. All right, so of course, everyone has to be on the same page in your office. And I know it's really different for everyone, right? So one thing might work better for one person and the other might work better for us. Yeah, and those employees that are like, no, I'm sticking to that five-day work week, they might risk the chance of them feeling alienated, right? Cause maybe a small percentage of your employees are still coming in on that Friday or that Monday, that fifth day of the week. And that can be definitely a con when it comes to this four-day work week versus five. So another con about the 10-hour work day might be too long, keeping you away from your families or moms away from kids. Yeah, exactly. So if you're a human mom or a dog mom, you know, you have to think about those kinds of things, right? So I have my dog Lainey, so I'm not gonna leave her, you know, in the house for 10 hours out of the day. It's not really practical. And more importantly, if you have a kid that may not work with like your daycare schedule. So these are things you have to keep in mind. Definitely con. Also very interesting I noticed with California, where I live, is that if you do in fact have an employee that works past eight hours, the company has to pay overtime. So can you do that? Does that work with your schedule? Can you afford to? I might add up. The last con is you may have to hire more people to make up for that increased flexibility. So that's more benefits that you're having to pay for, more training, I mean, that's a lot of money. That's adding up. Exactly. So some trials have shown that this four-day work week can in fact be a good move for your company. And there's some research too if it's not implemented properly. It's not a great change. But overall, if your team's on board and you communicate this, I say give it a shot. And now you know some of the pros and cons of that four-day work week. So be sure to like this video, go ahead and share it with everyone, including your boss. Also comment below which pros and cons do you like and ring that bell to know about our next video as soon as it comes out. This is A Journey.