The 4 Day Week Handbook

Improve productivity and staff loyalty by introducing a four-day week

– Packed with real-life case studies and resources

'The best guide to increasing your, and most other adults’, leisure time by 50%. With no serious downside.'Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford

Reclaim your time without sacrificing your ambition.

The workweek was designed for a different era — one with slower communication, fewer meetings, and far less digital noise. Today, many of us work longer hours yet feel less finished: inbox overload, constant pings, endless status calls, and the creeping sense that life is happening after work. The 4 Day Week Handbook is a practical, elegant guide to building a four-day work week (and a calmer mind) by working smarter, not harder—through focus, systems, and results.

This is not a fantasy manifesto. It’s a step-by-step actionable playbook for creating a 32-hour workweek that still delivers exceptional outcomes. Whether you’re an employee who wants Fridays back, a manager redesigning team performance, or an entrepreneur aiming to scale without burnout, you’ll learn how to compress work into fewer days by eliminating low-value activity, improving execution, and protecting deep work.

Inside, you’ll discover how to:

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  Diagnose where your time actually goes and identify the hidden “leaks” that steal hours
  
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  Apply Pareto thinking (the 80/20 rule) to responsibilities, clients, projects, and meetings
  
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  Replace busywork with a simple productivity system built around priorities, outcomes, and energy
  
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  Use time blocking, batching, and calendar design to create uninterrupted focus and flow
  
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  Reduce meetings with clear agendas, decision rules, and asynchronous communication
  
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  Streamline email and messaging so your day isn’t ruled by notifications
  
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  Delegate, automate, and standardize repeatable tasks—especially the ones you secretly hate
  
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  Build weekly planning rituals and a weekly review that make execution smoother and less stressful
  
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  Maintain momentum with measurable goals, lightweight metrics, and practical accountability
  
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  Create a pilot plan to propose a flexible schedule, hybrid work arrangement, or compressed hours—without sounding risky or unrealistic
  

A four-day workweek isn’t one “productivity hack,” it’s an operating...

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