Researchers identified several best practices for moving to a four-day week:

Reprioritize what's urgent, and let non-essential work fall away. This starts with getting clear about business goals, assessing which work contributes to outcomes, clearly assigning accountability for each task or project and removing obstacles so employees can contribute most meaningfully.
Allow employees to operate "top of license. Enable people to focus on what they are most qualified for instead of being distracted by administration or meetings that get in the way.
Understand each employee's passion and career goals. This hallmark approach of dynamic organizations enables each employee to self-optimize their time for optimum productivity in fewer days.
Embrace asynchronous communication. Project management tools can be helpful for project-specific communications, and employees easily can control their notification preferences. Defining new norms around how communication tools are used will also be important.
Empower employees to adopt their own productivity practices. Some organizations involved in the study created a list of best practices around work habits, even offering training to employees. Others may leave it up to the individual to determine what works for them.
Create a clear policy for action in emergency escalations. Identify urgent situations that typically need to be addressed quickly, and define the expected response.

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New management tools could make 4-day workweek a feasible option, study finds