How Canadian employers can make a four-day work week work

He also points out that some employees value their time in the office and might find a reduction disruptive.

“Presumably, I don’t imagine a firm would want to maintain the existing amount of square footage that they operate if they’re sending home their workforce for one out of the current five days,” he says.

“What are businesses supposed to do now that, in theory, they would be closed three days of the week, or would they be expecting that the workforce all get one day off, but not necessarily the same day? … That’s one of those things that it has the potential to improve morale, but it also has the potential to devastate it as well.”

Coordination challenges in an interconnected economy

Beyond internal implementation, Canadian HR professionals must also consider the external business environment in which their organizations operate – Lander emphasizes that in a globalized, interconnected economy, asynchronous work schedules could introduce friction into supply chains, client service, and even personal routines.

“This is a much, much more difficult thought process than just, ‘Here’s some anecdotal evidence that suggests that everybody seems happier with their life, so let’s aggregate this up,’” he says.

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