Collaborative Research: Assessing Impacts of a Four-Day Workweek

每周工作4天、32小时、不减薪是一种新兴的职场创新。这个项目调查了四天工作周对员工、组织和环境的潜在好处。这项研究调查了四天工作制如何影响员工的身心健康、满意度和行为，包括家庭碳排放。减少家庭碳排放是减轻人类对气候变化影响的一个潜在策略。该研究还通过调查公司收入、员工缺勤率和员工流动率，考虑了四天工作制对公司的好处。四天工作周可能是国家福祉和繁荣的重要贡献者。该项目是已知的第一个以四天工作周为单位的重大科学调查，具有强大的研究设计。调查人员与非营利组织“全球4天工作周”（4 Day Week Global）合作，该组织为机构组织为期六个月的试验，以采用四天工作周。研究人员对20家试行四天工作周的美国公司和20家对照公司进行了配对病例对照设计。该项目结合了调查、访谈和管理数据。调查分四波进行：试验基线、中点、试验结束和试验结束后六个月，调查人群在1000到2000人之间。对40名员工或经理和10名ceo分别进行了两次采访。该研究调查了四天工作制如何影响员工的压力和倦怠、身心健康、锻炼、睡眠、生活和时间使用满意度、工作与生活冲突以及家庭碳排放。一种交叉方法可以研究四天工作制对不同阶层、生活阶段和人口特征的工人可能产生的不同影响。跨公司的混合方法设计允许跨公司、职业和行业的比较分析，从而有助于理解工作场所的灵活性和组织变革。调查工作场所政策如何影响碳排放，也可能阐明有偿工作如何有助于减缓气候变化。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A four-day, 32-hour workweek with no reduction in pay is an emerging workplace innovation. This project investigates potential benefits of a four-day workweek for employees, organizations, and the environment. The study investigates how a four-day workweek shapes workers’ mental and physical health, levels of satisfaction, and behavior, including household carbon use. Reducing household carbon use is one potential strategy to mitigate human effects on the changing climate. The research also considers how a four-day workweek might benefit companies by investigating company revenue, employee absenteeism, and worker turnover. The four-day week may be an important contributor to national well-being and prosperity.The project is the first known major scientific investigation of a four-day workweek with a robust research design. Investigators partner with 4 Day Week Global, a non-profit that organizes six-month trials for institutions to adopt a four-day workweek. Researchers use a matched pair case-control design with 20 U.S. companies who trial the four-day workweek, plus 20 control companies. The project combines surveys, interviews, and administrative data. The surveys take place across four waves: trial baseline, mid-point, trial end, and six months from trial end, with a survey population of between 1000 and 2000. Interviews are conducted twice each with 40 employees or managers and 10 CEOs. The study investigates how a four-day workweek shapes workers’ stress and burnout, mental and physical health, exercise, sleep, life and time-use satisfaction, work-life conflict, and household carbon use. An intersectional approach enables the study of potentially disparate effects of the four-day week on workers by class, life stage, and demographic characteristics. The cross-company mixed-methods design permits comparative analysis across firms, occupations, and industries, thereby contributing to understanding of workplace flexibility and organizational change. Investigating how workplace policies shape carbon emissions may also illuminate how paid work could help to mitigate climate change.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.