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We’re trialling a 4-day work week (but with one key difference) More and more progressive companies are switching to a 4-day work week as a way to help their team members live more fulfilling lives and become more engaged with their work. Which posed us the question — shall we follow suit? As it turns out, just copying what others do is never a good idea. In 2022, the companies that are thriving are the ones investing their time, resources and attention towards building a great place to work — one that values their teams’ wellbeing and personal fulfilment as a top priority. This has brought many forward-thinking companies to challenge old assumptions about the amount of time we spend at work. They introduced new, exciting ways of working that gave back more time to team members to spend outside of work — like the 4-day work week. At Charlie, we had always taken the Monday-to-Friday work week as a given, the ‘norm’. But after all norms were overturned with the pandemic, was the 4-day work week the way forward?