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- 4-day work week trials have found a shortened work week can improve employees’ work-life balance.
- For working parents, the benefits can be obvious: an extra day off to help with childcare.
- vChief says its 4-day work week helps employees juggle jobs as parents, self-care, and side hustles.
Madeleine Niebauer, the founder and CEO of startup vChief, is also a mom.
When it came time to hire her first full-time employees in 2021, Niebauer asked herself: What if her business could set a different example around work-life balance?
She decided that vChief, a startup that helps fill part-time executive positions, would become a workplace entirely designed around a 4-day work week capped at 32 hours. Each employee gets to select the day off they prefer in the week — as long as it’s properly communicated with team members.