Is AI The Secret Sauce For The Four-Day Workweek?
Computerworld, Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
AI and automation may help enterprises transition to four-day workweeks by promoting asynchronous work, optimizing the exchange of information, and minimizing low-level tasks.
Despite the well-publicized success of four-day workweek pilots around the globe, it's still a relatively uncommon way of working.
'There is a lot of traditional thinking and managerial resistance in most organizations against four-day workweeks,' says Leslie Joseph, principal analyst at Forrester.
Companies that have experimented with four-day workweeks have generally gotten positive results, so long as there is systemic support in the organization, Joseph says. 'They found that their employees actually appreciated it and found themselves to be more productive. Individual mental health and individual work-life balance 'also' improved.'