Four Day Work Weeks

To be perfectly clear, I’m all for four-day work weeks. Where do I sign up?

But let’s be real for a minute.

The moon landings, the space shuttle, and the mission to Mars don’t happen on four-day work weeks.

The Macintosh, the iPod, and the iPhone don’t make it to market with four-day work weeks.

Amazon, Google, and Facebook don’t launch on four-day work weeks.

By the way, these things don’t happen with five-day work weeks either. Five versus four is semantics when we’re talking about making great things. It’s arbitrary. 

You wanna make something great or be a part of something historical? There is no work-life balance. It’s work-life integration. 

Four-day work weeks are awesome. I’m all in. But let’s not kid ourselves about what can and should benefit from four-day work weeks.