The Great Resignation. Quiet quitting. Critical burnout. One thing is clear—employees have very little left to give. Smart employers are taking notice of these trends and working to remedy them. One popular solution, the four-day workweek, shows promise, but it’s not the panacea many business leaders hope it will be. Proponents of the four-day workweek often cite studies from Iceland and Japan that demonstrated increased levels of job satisfaction, decreased levels of burnout, and even increased performance when traditional workweeks were truncated. But the evidence isn’t always positive. A study from New Zealand demonstrated that the four-day workweek results in more intense days on the job and increased pressure from management to drive performance. The thinking behind the four-day workweek is outdated. The notion that people are either