Minnesota 4-Day Workweek

Employer Practice Community

What might the 4-day, 32-hour workweek look like at your organization? Join our inaugural cohort this spring and find out if a pilot is right for you.

Why the 4-Day Workweek?

Responding to crisis levels of overwork, disconnection, and burnout, organizations and employees everywhere are exploring new approaches to work that can better support engagement and retention. The most transformative solution, proven to improve wellbeing, productivity, and retention across industries and around the world, is the 4-day, 32-hour workweek.

The MN 4DW Employer Practice Community

This spring, we’ll be supporting a small number of organizational leaders in determining why, whether, and how you can pilot the 4-day workweek. Through a series of weekly meetings with WorkFour organizers, leaders who have already adopted the 4-day workweek at their organizations, experienced work-time reduction consultants, and peers, we’ll help you define your pilot goals, convince your leadership and board, identify opportunities and barriers to adoption, assess different workweek models, and decide whether running the pilot is the right decision.

Dates

April 1 - May 30

Timed to set you up for Summer Fridays

Who should participate

Nonprofit leaders in a position to lead this change in their organizations

Work in another industry, or want to advocate without positional authority? Let us know

8 weekly sessions covering the following:

  • Setting your vision for the 4-day workweek (Desired impact and pilot goals)

  • Possible approaches, risks, and mitigation

  • Stakeholder engagement and positioning (Leadership, staff, board)

  • Operational considerations (HR systems, scheduling, policy)

  • How to get work done in 4 days instead of 5: Organizational/structural changes

  • How to get work done, Part 2: Team/individual changes

  • Success metrics, timeline, and evaluation

  • Open questions (from participants) and next steps

Guidance from leaders who’ve done it:

  • Elissa Schufman, Move Minnesota

  • Emily Anderson, Arts Midwest

  • Megan Scanlon, Global Knowledge Initiative

  • Daisy Morin, Organizer

  • Joe O’Connor, Work Time Reduction CoE

  • Grace Talon, Work Time Reduction CoE

  • Juliet Schor, 4 Day Week Global

  • Laura Isdahl, Organizer

Interested? Let’s Chat!