More B.C. businesses embracing 4-day work weeks

July 12, 2024

More B.C. companies and organizations have joined a growing movement to challenge the traditional five-day work week model and allow their employees to work just four days a week.

The central idea behind it is that by reducing work hours, companies will have more engaged and productive employees who perform the same—if not better—with fewer work hours.

In the past year, there was a 34-per-cent increase in the number of Canadian businesses implementing four-day schedules, according to May data from human resources software provider BrightHR.

B.C.-based organizations including the Vancouver Foundation and the City of Merritt, and tech firms such as Procurify and Blackbird Interactive, have shifted to four-day work weeks in recent years. Game studio Brace Yourself Games officially switched to four-day, 32-hour work weeks in January after trying flexible Fridays for a while, with no change in salaries.

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