The four-day week isn't a perk. It's a better way to run a team.

Daniel Mercer · Founder of Northpoint · 5 min read

Two years ago we cut Fridays. Not as a reward, but as a constraint. With four days, meetings shrank, handovers got written down and nobody pretended to be busy.

“We didn't lose a day. We lost the parts of the week that were never really work.”

Output stayed flat for a month, then rose. Sick days halved. Two people who had planned to leave stayed. The hardest part wasn't the work; it was letting go of the idea that hours equal effort.