Minnesota 4-Day Workweek Practice Community
What might the 4-day, 32-hour workweek look like at your organization? Find out if a pilot is right for you.
We’ve concluded our first cohort! We look forward to welcoming our second cohort in the near future and will update this page with details soon. Please fill out the form below to let us know if you’re interested.
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 Practice Community
We facilitate practice communities with a small number of organizational leaders to support them in determining why, whether, and how to pilot the 4-day workweek.
Through a series of regular 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.
Practice communities are offered on a regular basis, typically annually, depending on interest. Our inaugural spring 2025 cohort resulted in two organizations adopting a 4-day workweek (and counting)!
Dates
TBD depending on interest in 2026
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 in the form below.
Topics covered:
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, and 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 McGlynn Scanlon, Global Knowledge Initiative
Daisy Morin, WorkFour (Organizer)
Joe O’Connor, Work Time Reduction CoE
Grace Talon, Work Time Reduction CoE
Juliet Schor, 4 Day Week Global
Laura Isdahl, WorkFour (Organizer)
Interested? Let’s chat
