Introduction to the 4 Day Week The time has come for a new way of thinking about the future of work and how we adapt ourselves and our businesses. We believe the conversation for work needs to shift from time to productivity outcomes. By measuring the right indicators we can provide efficient work and allow for more time away from work. We proved this at one of our companies, Perpetual Guardian, where after a successful trial, we rolled out the 4 Day Week as a permanent way of working. The rise of the gig economy represents a new industrial era, and we have not had a conversation about its implications for our economy and society. With the work we are doing in our company and now this white paper, we seek to generate useful data and insights to share with organisations that wish to develop their own productivity and flexibility policies. As we have engaged with businesses and interested groups around the world, we have found there is a hunger for knowledge and community in support of this new way of working. We hope that 4 Day Week – Global helps with this. Our aim is to be a connector and supporter of businesses who want to take the plunge and research into the effects of a shorter work week on our people, our businesses, our economies and our planet. We do this by sponsoring through our Foundation research across the world with projects run out of the University of Oxford, the University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology. - Andrew Barnes, Perpetual Guardian founder and 4 Day Week Global Architect - Charlotte Lockhart, 4 Day Week Global CEO