{"id":218484,"date":"2025-07-22T16:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/four-day-work-week-benefits-workers-employers-study-says"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:03:48","slug":"four-day-work-week-benefits-workers-employers-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/four-day-work-week-benefits-workers-employers-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Four-day work week benefits workers, employers, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/four-day-work-week-benefits-workers-employers-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A four-day work week can lead to happier and more productive, dedicated employees, a new global study found.<\/p>\n<p>Workers at companies that instituted a four-day work week\u2014essentially working 80% of their regular hours for the same pay\u2014reported less burnout and better job satisfaction along with improved mental and physical health, researchers report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-025-02259-6\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Human Behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross outcomes, the magnitude (of improvement) is larger for the two work-related measures\u2014burnout and job satisfaction\u2014followed by mental health, with the smallest changes reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/physical+health\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physical health<\/a>,\u201d wrote the research team co-led by Juliet Schor, an economist and sociologist at Boston College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four-day work week can lead to happier and more productive, dedicated employees, a new global study found. Workers at companies that instituted a four-day work week\u2014essentially working 80% of their regular hours for the same pay\u2014reported less burnout and better job satisfaction along with improved mental and physical health, researchers report in Nature Human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}