After a three-month pilot, we're making it official: the entire engineering team will move to a four-day work week, Monday through Thursday, beginning June 1.
The pilot told us something we suspected but couldn't prove: time is not the same as output. Teams running on the shortened schedule shipped more features, closed more tickets, and — measurably — wrote fewer regressions. Burnout indicators dropped across every surveyed metric.
A 12% lift isn't a rounding error. It's permission to rethink the default.
Fridays become a full company day off for all engineers. No standups, no on-call rotations for non-critical systems, no expectation of response on Slack or email. Core collaboration hours remain 10am–3pm Monday through Thursday.
Compensation, equity vesting, PTO accrual, and benefits are unchanged. This is a compression, not a concession.
Managers will meet with their teams over the next two weeks to review on-call coverage, meeting cadence, and customer-facing commitments. An FAQ and updated policy document will be posted to the internal wiki on May 15.
Questions, concerns, or ideas — bring them. This works because we make it work together.