More Good Days: A 4-Day Workweek Visualizer
If you’re reading this, you probably already support a 4-day workweek, because really, who wouldn’t? But have you ever stopped to think about how a 4-day workweek would actually change your life? As 2025 comes to a close, I decided to do just that, and it turns out that getting back just one extra day every week makes a huge difference. 6 years of difference to be exact.
What difference does a day make?
Try thinking back to your last good day. Not one with a big event, like when you graduated or got married, just a “regular” day where you felt like you spent it well. Maybe you spent time with your family, enjoyed one of your hobbies, or practiced a new skill. Maybe it’s all of those things in one day! Whatever you did, just imagine this block represents your good day.
I am not a graphic designer, so please bear with me here :)
It probably feels nice to even think about your good day. With a 4-day workweek, you’d get an extra chance to have that day every single week. That’s 52 more days of freedom a year, and 52 three-day weekends. Here’s what a year’s worth of 4-day workweeks looks like:
Thinking back through my year, I know for a fact it would be completely different if I had all these extra days. I might have had more good days, I might have had some lay on the couch and watch movies days, but whatever kind of days they might have been, they would have been entirely mine.
And that was just one year. What if you had a 4-day workweek for your entire 45-year long working life?
2,340 days. 334 weeks. Nearly 6 and a half entire years. Now you’re starting to get the picture! When viewed over a lifetime, just one little day a week suddenly starts to open up a whole world of possibilities. It’s hard to wrap your head around the true impact of a 4-day workweek, but it’s pretty tough to imagine a scenario where having all this extra free time wouldn’t make your life considerably better.
A good life is just a series of good days.
This massive stack of good days is what we are missing out on in a world dominated by work. It’s ironic: the whole point of working in a free society is to make people’s lives better, but for most of us, work barely pays the bills and prevents us from filling our lives with more good days. We’re too stuck doing business-as-usual to look up and realize that the very thing that was supposed to help us no longer serves us.
Combine that with the fact that studies repeatedly show that a 4-day workweek won’t bring companies to financial ruin and we really have ourselves a no brainer here. The only thing standing between us and 2,000+ more free days are the business-as-usual folks who can’t imagine a world with less work, and more importantly, our collective imagination. Most people I talk to haven’t heard of the 4-day workweek, or if they have, they haven’t really thought about it too much. As leaders of this movement, it’s our job to make the 4-day workweek real — first in our own minds, then in our communities.
So as you go into the new year, remember this: a good life is just a series of good days. That’s really all there is to it. Keep fighting for a world where you are free to pursue more good days. We’ll be right there alongside you. From everyone at WorkFour, we hope you have a wonderful holiday season with your loved ones and wish you many more good days in 2026!
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P.S. If you haven’t read Tim Urban’s blog post, “The Tail End,” definitely go check it out. His concept inspired this post!
