Our Story
WorkFour is the only nonprofit dedicated to advancing the four-day workweek in the United States. We were created in 2019 in partnership with the 4 Day Week Global Foundation. Our first campaign, with support from researchers at Boston College and Cambridge University, sought to recruit employers for the first organized U.S. pilot. The pilot contributed to a growing body of research demonstrating the four-day workweek is a win-win-win policy with benefits for employers, workers, and society.
Since then, we’ve built a multi-pronged approach to win the four-day workweek for all families in the United States through our three program areas: workplace engagement, politics and policy, and narrative change. We are confident that our approach will ultimately help build a world where we work to live, rather than live to work.
Advisory Council + Team
Our Advisory Council consists of leaders from a wide range of sectors who have experience advancing the four-day workweek movement or related causes.
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Angela Lang
Executive Director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC)
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Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Director of Research and Programs at 4 Day Week Global; Author of Work Less Do More, Shorter, Rest, and The Distraction Addiction
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Daisy Morin
WorkFour Workplace Engagement Director
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Dimitrios Cavathas
Chief Executive Officer of Lower Shore Clinic
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Jason Chow
WorkFour Director of Operations
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Jennifer Njuguna
Co-CEO of Common Future
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Joe O'Connor
CEO of Work Time Reduction
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Jon Leland
Chief Strategy Officer at Kickstarter; Co-Founder of WorkFour
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Jon Steinman
Co-Founder of WorkFour; Communicator at Protect Democracy
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Karim Bouris
Principal at Mixte Communications
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Dr. Juliet Schor
Economist and Sociologist, Boston College; Lead Researcher for Four Day Week Global trials
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Lili Hoag
Senior National Strategist at Oregon Food Bank; Former Senior Political and Advocacy Director at Family Forward Oregon
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Dr. Lonnie Golden
Professor of Economics and Labor & Human Resources at Penn State University, Abington College
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Paul David
CEO of Literal Humans
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Pete Davis
Co-founder of the Democracy Policy Network; Author
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Orli Cotel
Former Founding Member of Paid Leave US; Founder of Orli Cotel Consulting
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Dr. Robert Bruno
Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Director of the Labor Education Program and the Project for Middle Class Renewal at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Sara El-Amine
Former Executive Director Change.org Foundation; Former Executive Director and President at Organizing for Action
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Shanti Matthew
Managing Director at Public Policy Lab
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Vishal Reddy
Acting Executive Director of WorkFour