Right now, one of the most revolutionary workplace experiments in recent history is taking place. Thousands of companies across the globe are shortening their workweeks to four days. The same amount of work still needs to get done, and employees are being paid the same. While it might sound like a bad idea, in practice, participating organizations report that conditions are actually improving. So far, there are three main benefits of the four-day workweek. First, it gives employees back their most valuable resource: their time. They feel less overwhelmed, less stressed, and less burned out. As a result, in many cases, this leads to the second benefit: increased productivity. Working on a tighter schedule means less time is wasted, and employees find more efficient ways to get work done. The four-day workweek also helps organizations stand out at a time when talent is hard to come by. Flexibility is an absolute necessity in retaining top talent, and a four-day workweek communicates to potential employees that it’s something you value as an organization. “It’s hard to say \[the four-day workweek pilot\] hasn’t been beneficial, both from a qualitative and a quantitative standpoint, because we’re also smashing our business objectives,” said Emtrain President, Odessa Jenkins. “Knowing that both from a soft skills standpoint we’ve improved, as well as from a financial or business productivity standpoint we’ve improved, it’s hard to say that it wasn’t a great idea.”