The four-day week seems impossible — an employee's dream. So why is it working?

 When Liz Indrans found out her work was going to a four-day week model, she was torn.

"I thought: 'Amazing!' Selfishly, I was like, 'This is a great idea'," she said.

But the operations manager of design agency Your Creative has 18 staff and needs to get five days' work out of them every week to make the business work.

Success in the UK trial

Many businesses in Australia and overseas have experimented with a four-day week, but it's not about squeezing the standard 40 hours of most office workers into four days.

Most trials have focused on radically reducing working time to around 32 hours a week and letting employees work them over four days.

Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-20/four-day-week-trial-underway-in-australia/102108330