The 4-day workweek died at some point in the 2020s, and now it’s spread out over 6 days
Source: Fortune ·
Owl Labs' Frank Weishaupt, the remote work thought leader behind "coffee badging," says "billboard days" and busy Sundays mark the world of work in 2026.
From the source
Frank Weishaupt did not expect to be workshopping heavy metal album titles with me 15 minutes into a press call about his own survey data. But that’s where the conversation about Owl Labs’ 10th annual State of Hybrid Work Report landed, after I told him that what he’d put together sounded like “kind of a nightmare fuel report.” Weishaupt, a thought leader in the field of remote work thanks to his role as CEO of the Boston-based video-conferencing company, pushed back — just a little bit. “I don’t know if I see it that way,” he said, before immediately cataloging the ingredients: job hugging, career minimalism, employees strategically “billboarding” themselves in the office one day a week while working six. “I just said a bunch of things that don’t sound really good in that mixture,” he said. “So your soup is definitely there, right?” Acknowledging that the report is “stress-bound” and at times “sounds like a terrible recipe,” Weishaupt insisted there are more nuances to the story.…
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