Across industries, HR’s hurdles pile up like an unchecked inbox. Tasked with fighting employee burnout and high turnover, championing gender parity and diversity, recruiting skilled workers and more, HR and talent professionals have a lot to fit into the workweek. But what if shortening the workweek could help?
Proponents of the four-day workweek see it as something of a panacea for workers’ issues, and by extension, many of HR’s current challenges. The concept seems less radical of late, with a recent Payscale report confirming that 10% of more than 7,000 polled leaders now offer the four-day week to employees.
