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| 5mvcq_v1 | The four-day, thirty-two-hour week: analysing organisational success and failure | The four-day week signals a shift in how work is organised, but what determines whether that shift takes hold across workplaces? While there is considerable evidence that a four-day week improves employee well-being, there is less evidence about its impact on employer outcomes. Drawing on novel data from more than 200 companies around the globe that participated in four-day, thirty-two-hour weeks with no reduction in pay, we find that 90% of companies continue this schedule. From neoclassical and Marxian theories of the workplace, institutional theories of legitimacy, and gendered and racialized organizational theory, we test three main hypotheses. As expected from labour process theories, we find that some employers revert to a five-day schedule after achieving efficiencies. From theories of legitimacy, we find that organisations that fail to reduce stress are more likely to revert. Finally, we find that organisations with more white males are also more likely to revert. | 2025-05-09T16:47:55.695232 | 2025-05-09T20:51:41.013926 | 2025-05-09T20:51:23.260265 | socarxiv | 1 | accepted | 1 | 1 | https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/5mvcq_v1 | No license | four day week; gendered and racialized organizations; ideal worker norm; labour process; worktime reduction | ["four day week", "gendered and racialized organizations", "ideal worker norm", "labour process", "worktime reduction"] | Juliet Schor; Wen Fan; Guolin Gu; Jared B. Fitzgerald | [{"id": "xa7d4", "name": "Juliet Schor", "index": 0, "orcid": "0000-0001-9635-1232", "bibliographic": true}, {"id": "rejkc", "name": "Wen Fan", "index": 1, "orcid": null, "bibliographic": true}, {"id": "hv62g", "name": "Guolin Gu", "index": 2, "orcid": null, "bibliographic": true}, {"id": "7v954", "name": "Jared B. Fitzgerald", "index": 3, "orcid": null, "bibliographic": true}] | Juliet Schor | Social and Behavioral Sciences | [{"id": "5a8c80f7c698300375c76d84", "text": "Social and Behavioral Sciences"}] | https://osf.io/download/681e31ca8465e4333a52075c | 0 | no | no | [] | 2025-05-10T00:11:34.195112 |