Tech CEO: 4-Day Work Week Didn't Hurt Or Help Productivity
The Register, Thursday, April 10th, 2025
'There are challenges' but staff recruitment and retention isn't one of them
Civo shifted its workforce to a four-day working week and while it hasn't changed productivity much at the cloud biz, it has helped attract "new talent" and retain existing staff, CEO Mark Boost says.
While Microsoft and Dell would prefer to keep quiet about work-life balance programs embarked upon during 2019 and 2022 respectively, others in the tech industry - albeit of a different scale - are embracing change.
"We piloted the four-day week in 2020 and after a successful pilot, which included gathering feedback from our staff, we decided to implement it in January 2021, so we're now four years on from adopting full time," he tells The Register.