Companies with 4-day workweeks are hiring right now

The four-day work week there is a moment.

Several recent studies, including one that followed nearly 3,000 workers in the UK, show when companies switch up to a four-day workweek, workers’ productivity, health, relationships and even finances improve. California Representative Mark Takano recently reintroduced The 32-Hour Workweek Act in Congress too, this would change the definition of a working week from the current 40 hours if passed.

“While the concept of the four-day workweek is not entirely new, there’s no denying that the model has huge momentum and interest,” said Doug Ebertowski, career expert at FlexJobs. The idea is gaining traction, he said, and “along with the fact that employers have become much more creative in their approach to attracting great workers, they can be which means we could see the four-day workweek here continue.”

Whatever the future holds for the trend to become the norm, some companies are doing it as their schedule right now. FlexJobs, which focuses on flexible and remote roles, has identified a number of companies that have or are planning to adopt a shorter workweek. And they’re hiring. Here are 11 of those companies, including some of their open roles.

Augry is a software company that helps detect machine problems through ultrasonic sensors.
Headquarters: Haifa, Israel
Open role: corporate client success manager, area controller, service commitment manager

Bolt Financial offers clients, such as e-commerce merchants, a payment platform for their online stores.
Headquarters: Sanfrancisco, California
Open role: lead software engineer, senior machine learning engineer

DNSFilter helps IT professionals filter unsafe web content and protect from digital threats.
Headquarters: Washington DC
Open role: general advisor, senior manager of digital marketing

Do Big Things is an innovative digital company that offers services such as website design and speaker training.
Headquarters: Mill Valley, California
Open role: CFO, senior account executive

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform whose projects range from movies to board games.
Headquarters: completely remote
Open role: senior social media director, comic outreach director, senior product designer

Merit America is a non-profit organization that creates pathways to careers in technology through technical training.
Headquarters: Washington DC
Open role: gift from the director to individuals, revenue operations experts

New Leaders provide equity-focused training to teachers, principals, and other educational figures.
Headquarters: New York, New York
Open role: Vice President of Development

Panasonic is a global technology company with products serving the energy, manufacturing and retail industries, among others.
Headquarters: Newark, New Austria
Open role: public safety account manager, customer relations specialist, field service technician

Poll Anywhere on behalf of its clients creating online polls, surveys, quizzes and more.
Headquarters: Sanfrancisco, California
Open role: engineering manager, site reliability engineer

SambaSafety sells software that keeps customers and their communities technologically safe.
Headquarters: Denver, Colorado
Open role: Referral specialist, senior data governance analyst, Salesforce administrator

thredUP is an online thrift store.
Headquarters: Oakland, California
Open role: financial data analyst, staff director, warehouse collaborator

According to Yolanda Owens, career expert at Muse. With the exception of Panasonic, they are also smaller companies, “mostly under 1,000 employees,” she said.

“For smaller organizations, adopting a four-day workweek makes sense because it’s easier to get the parameters around that,” she says. “I think it’s a bit harder for larger organizations to do that just because of the scope and size.” The logistics of arranging that kind of flexibility for people in a range of roles can be difficult, she said.

“I don’t think you’ll see an Amazon adopting this any time soon.”

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