The workweek is about to get one day shorter for employees at Elephant Ventures. More from Success
The software and data engineering company is testing out a compressed four-day workweek starting this week. Employees will have 10-hour days, Monday through Thursday.
"Fridays we are off and we are trying to encourage pencils down, no emails or Slack. We want to really hold the time open," said President and Founder Art Shectman.
i would try it out. 8 hours at work already ruins a day, might as well pile a few more hours in there to free up a Friday
I had to do overtime at work quite often in the past and if you are not invested in what you do, two additional hours a day are going to drive you insane. I worked 10 hours/day continuously for four weeks, and then sporadically for the next few months - and during these four weeks I could leave at 13 on Wednesday (I don't even think this is legal). I was completely devastated once at home, worked sucked the life out of me. The though alone of having to work for 10 hours + a 30 minutes commute was drying my will to live even when I was out with friends. I hated it so much I eventually broke down and quit my job. It was beyond absurd how my superiors expected us to tackle a 10 hours workday as if the two additional hours were absolutely irrelevant and not more taxing at all, that's what I hated the most about the whole thing. The whole principle of working more and sacrificing your free time to make your company earn profit and meet deadlines is absurd, but how it seemed like everyone wasn't even mentally capable of acknowledging how one can suffer from prolonged working hours was beyond me. I don't wish anyone a 10 hours workday, unless you really really like what you do - and the decision is not going to harm anyone