Discover that the week of 8/25 was really one in all our strongest weeks but in relation to how we felt concerning the 4DWW Problem. Not solely have been tasks being fulfilled and deadlines being met, however workers have been feeling rested, relaxed, and in charge of their very own work.

Right here are some things our workers have mentioned concerning the 4DWW previously few weeks:

“One other sturdy week, and I bought extra finished in much less time. The shorter workweek has helped me get the precedence objects finished first. It appears to me that the workforce is now extra essential of what’s essential and what’s not, which lets me have extra time for the long run, extra essential tasks.”

“The 4DWW is superb and I really feel like everybody’s communication has turn out to be tremendous crisp. We all know what’s wanted and when. We’re sensible about what we will accomplish and we’re shifting issues ahead.”

“It’s exhausting to consider that we’ve solely been doing this for two months. It feels prefer it has been a part of our DNA endlessly. It feels nice.”

“Some weeks are higher than others however general it’s good. My stress degree was larger final week [with Labor Day]. I bear in mind feeling the identical method earlier than the lengthy vacation weekends of Memorial Day and 4th of July.”

“Initiatives that I’m concerned in have gotten extra team-based and I’ve but had a difficulty with anybody being unable to contribute or needing a reminder of deadlines. Pondering again to the quantities of stress/time-crunch that Q1 was forcing on us, I really feel just like the 4DWW take a look at has made up for it.”

General, the sentiment is extremely optimistic. Everybody at IWT is proud that they have been in a position to end the 4DWW Problem with no main points — and that they’re now working at a spot that has embraced a compressed week. 

IWT’s values at work

Because the 4DWW turns into increasingly fashionable, different corporations could comply with swimsuit. There are many good causes for it: Research have proven that it improves bodily and psychological well being, ups productiveness, and will increase general job satisfaction. 

For IWT, although, one of many biggest points of the problem is that we actually bought to dwell our values:

• We’re fixed learners, so the 4DWW lets us take a look at out a data-backed course of for ourselves to see if it labored for us. 
• We’re higher as a workforce, which allowed us to talk with intent at each step of this course of and assist one another once we wanted it.
• We got here to the desk with options and have become much more artistic and collaborative because of this problem. 

So, the 4DWW Problem is likely to be finished — however we’re not finished with the 4DWW. 

As we embark on this new chapter of IWT, we’re excited to have the ability to dwell out this daring new Wealthy Life that many people couldn’t think about once we first joined. 

For years, we’ve taught our readers and college students the programs, ways, and classes to assist them construct the life they need. It’s allowed them to interrupt out of the invisible scripts that society has instructed them about how their life “ought to” be. 

We needed to point out you all that we try this too. If it conjures up a couple of of you to check out a 4DWW at your individual firm or enterprise — and even simply attempting to take again just a little little bit of time for your self — then that’s what our Wealthy Life is all about. 

As for myself, it’s been a blast overlaying this subject for you all — however now I’ve to trip off into the proverbial sundown. In case you favored my writing, make sure to comply with me on the website-formerly-known-as-Twitter the place I put up my articles from my job as a science and tech journalist. Lastly, do me a favor: Take a random Friday or Monday off this month. In case your boss asks why, inform them it’s a private day (or {that a} random publication author gave you permission). Tell us the way it made you’re feeling — and if it makes you wish to make the 4DWW part of your Wealthy Life.