Collaborative Research: Assessing Impacts of a Four-Day Workweek

每周工作4天，32小时，工资不减，这是一项新兴的工作场所创新。该项目调查一周四天工作制对员工、组织和环境的潜在好处。这项研究调查了一周四天工作制如何影响员工的身心健康、满意度以及包括家庭碳使用在内的行为。减少家庭碳使用是减轻人类对不断变化的气候的影响的一个潜在战略。这项研究还通过调查公司收入、员工缺勤率和员工流动率，考虑了一周四天工作制如何使公司受益。四天工作制可能是对国家福祉和繁荣的重要贡献。该项目是已知的第一个对四天工作制进行重大科学调查的项目，研究设计得很扎实。调查人员与全球4天工作周合作，这是一个非营利性组织，为机构组织为期6个月的试验，以采用每周4天工作制。研究人员使用配对病例对照设计，包括20家试验每周工作四天的美国公司和20家对照公司。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、试验中点、试验结束和试验结束后六个月，调查人数在1000至2000人之间。面试进行两次，每次采访40名员工或经理和10名首席执行官。这项研究调查了每周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、生活和时间利用满意度、工作与生活冲突以及家庭碳使用。一种交叉的方法可以研究每周四天工作制对工人的潜在不同影响，包括班级、人生阶段和人口统计特征。跨公司混合方法设计允许跨公司、职业和行业进行比较分析，从而有助于了解工作场所的灵活性和组织变化。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缓解气候变化。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.