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Understory Makes the Four-Day Week Permanent
Theo Lindqvist
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Understory
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3 min
We started the four-day week as a one-year experiment. Two years and eleven projects later, it is simply how the studio works.
Salaries stayed the same. Deadlines held. What changed is that Fridays are quiet, site visits are better planned, and nobody spends August recovering.
The practical machinery behind it is unglamorous: fewer internal meetings, clearer drawing standards, and a rule that no project depends on a single person being reachable.
We are also keeping the paid field week each spring, when the whole studio visits finished projects and takes notes on what the landscape did without us.
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