'Wednesday plus one' & the 4-day week

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Workplace Culture, Social Sciences, Management, Work, Culture, Business, Science

4.7 • 991 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Lots of discussion right now about firms trying to kick start their workplace culture.

I wanted to explore conversations with leaders who were leading experiments in how to make things feel different.

In what prove to be a pair of candid conversations I talk to two firms who are asking the question if workplaces can be more motivated by trying to vary the ingredients. John Sill tells us how his firm The Foundation are trying out Wednesday plus one, then John Readman tells us how Modo25 have become the latest firm to try the four-day week - with some learnings along the way.

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0:00.0	If you run a restaurant in London, you need to know about Square.
0:03.4	The integrated point of sale system built four restaurants.
0:06.7	It's payments, point of sale and reporting all in one.
0:10.1	It also connects your front and back of house, which you nail every order and Square's reporting feature can help you save hours on accounting every week.
0:18.0	Join at Square.com. Square, big in restaurants.
0:22.0	Square Up Europe Limited is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic
0:26.1	Money Regulations 2011.
0:27.7	Registered reference number 900846. This is In Sleep Work Repeat, it's a podcast about workplace culture, psychology and life.
0:43.7	Hello, I'm Bruce Daseley.
0:45.3	I just recorded all of this and I wasn't using my microphone.
0:49.5	So there you go.
0:50.1	So it should be therefore much more lucid than it was before.
0:54.0	Today's episode is a reflection of some of the stuff that we've been talking about on the
0:58.0	newsletter over the last few months. One of the things that really struck me as we came to the summer, before the summer, was that we were going
1:05.1	to have the moment where firms were debating, being more restrictive and demanding a greater
1:11.7	return to the office, and we're most definitely starting to witness it.
1:15.0	I've had a couple of radio stations contact me saying,
1:18.0	can you talk to us about how firms are demanding more workers coming to the office.
1:23.2	So we're definitely witnessing it.
1:25.2	And I think my response is always that we're in a moment right now
1:29.0	where maybe the ingredients that used to be the component of workplace culture before.
1:35.3	We are going to be challenged if we think we're going to do them and achieve the same result.
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