Living the 3 day weekend

A few weeks ago I spotted a very interesting article on famous 37 Signals’ SvN blog. It tells a story about some experimental and highly successful workplace changes guys at 37 Signals made. Among others there’s one idea this post is all about: 4 day work weeks (free Fridays!).

Last week I’ve got a chance to check how it works as I took the Friday off. And it works great! On Monday I came to work relaxed, better motivated, and with mind full of new ideas and things to be done. I even had better attitude towards things I don’t particularly like doing, like fixing bugs in IE6 (aka kicking Microsoft in the ass), or filling in some reports. I must say (again!) that guys at 37 Signals have really cool ideas!!

By the way isn’t that silly that we work for 5 days and have only 2 days off? To me it’s breaking the symmetry in favor to work. Do you think we are meant to work such hard? Shouldn’t we take a more balanced approach such as 4/3? I’d really like it and I’m pretty sure so would you.