Business View Oceania | September 2020

14 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA SEPTEMBER 2020 BOOKMARKED New Zealand trust company, Perpetual Guardian. The key was not forcing a pre-planned set of rules on employees, but rather asking his staff to design a four-day week using the 100-80-100 rule that would allow them to meet 100 percent of their current productivity requirements at 100 percent of their current salary but with a 20 percent cut in work hours. The results of the eight-week trial were astounding. Happier, healthier people, more engaged in their personal lives and productive in the office. The experiment made news around the world and is changing perceptions around the traditional ways of working. The book The 4 Day Week is now an international bestseller that spurred the creation of 4 Day Week Global Foundation to fund research into the future of work and workplace wellbeing. Andrew Barnes and his partner, Charlotte Lockhart, now dedicate their time to expanding the 4 day week community on a global scale. For more information and to order the book, visit www.4dayweek.com Exclusive Q & A with CEO Charlotte Lockhart Business View Oceania recently had the pleasure of speaking with Charlotte Lockhart, CEO of 4 Day Week Global about the revolutionary concept and how it can positively impact the future of work, health and the planet Earth. The following is an edited transcript of our enlightening conversation. BVO: Welcome Charlotte! Can you tell us the evolution of 4 Day Week Global? Lockhart: “Thank you for the opportunity to share our story. Andrew and I developed 4 Day Week Global after a rather successful trial of the 4 day week in our business. Because we ran research alongside it, it got quite a lot of global attention. We divide our time between New Zealand and the U.K. and as we travelled, we connected with a lot of interesting people. They all wanted to tell us, “This is going really great; this is my perspective,” and it became clear that there was a need for a community to create a uniformity that meant that all the great work that’s being done around the world had a cohesion and a way of communicating and being inclusive. “So that’s when we decided that making 4 Day Week Global was what we wanted to do. The entire 4 Day Week movement is funded by Andrew and I. We are setting up some foundations to ease the burden because we’re just two people and we need to have that additional reach. We’re trying to essentially create a collective and that’s what 4 Day Week Global realistically is.” “As we moved on with our conversations, we