This is Planet Money from NPR.

About eight years ago, Natalie Nagel decided she wanted to try a kind of a radical experiment,

well at least for the tech industry.

Natalie runs a software company called Wild Bit out of Philadelphia along with her husband.

They make software for other companies like email automation and job boards.

And sure, like any tech executive worth of salt, Natalie was interested in changing the

world.

But the thing she wanted to change was the way her industry seemed to put work above everything

else.

So she proposed something bold.

But the company ask its employees to work drumroll please.

A 40 hour work week.

Yep, that was the bold move folks, five days a week, eight hours a day.

We actually put that on our like marketing pages on our company pages and in our job descriptions

to say at Wild Bit you only work 40 hours because in our industry was pervasive that you

would work 50, 60 hours that people were excited about Google installing laundry and daycare

service and all these things on campus because basically they didn't want you to leave.

While these tech juggernauts were trying to make it easier for their employees to spend

more and more of their lives at work, Natalie thought Wild Bit could offer her workers

a better life.

And it worked.

Natalie got their jobs done in eight hours, no regular all-nighters required.

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