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Message
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Four-Day Workweek Feasibility & Employee Preference Survey
Measures employee interest, schedule preferences, acceptable trade-offs, and operational concerns related to adopting a compressed or reduced workweek. Designed for HR and leadership teams evaluating workweek policy changes.
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22 questions · ~10 min
Q02
Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes your current work schedule?
- 5 days (~8 hours per day)
- 4 days (~10 hours per day)
- Variable compressed schedule (e.g., 9/80)
- Shift or rotating schedule
- Part-time or reduced hours
- Other
Q03
Opinion Scale
If offered a four-day workweek at the same pay and output expectations, how interested would you be?
Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not at all interestedMax:Extremely interested
Q04
Opinion Scale
How acceptable would it be to work longer daily hours (e.g., 10-hour days) to gain a day off each week?
Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Completely unacceptableMax:Completely acceptable
Q05
Multiple Choice
Which operational risks or concerns, if any, do you foresee with a four-day workweek? Select all that apply.
- Coverage during business hours
- Customer response times
- Hand-offs across teams or time zones
- Meeting coordination and calendars
- Compliance or labor rules
- Manager bandwidth and scheduling
- None — I do not foresee significant risks
- Other
Q06
AI Interview
We'd like to explore your thoughts on a four-day workweek in a bit more depth. An AI moderator will ask you a couple of follow-up questions based on your earlier answers.
Q07
Multiple Choice
What is your primary work arrangement?
- On-site
- Hybrid
- Remote
Q08
Message
Thank you for your time and insights — your feedback will directly inform our evaluation of workweek options. Results will be shared with the team in aggregate form.
Q09
Opinion Scale
How flexible is your current schedule for adjusting your hours or days when needed?
Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not at all flexibleMax:Extremely flexible
Q10
Opinion Scale
How likely would you be to opt in to a four-day workweek if it were offered as an option (not mandatory)?
Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very unlikelyMax:Very likely
Q11
Opinion Scale
How acceptable would it be to reduce the number of recurring meetings to free up time within four days?
Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Completely unacceptableMax:Completely acceptable
Q12
Opinion Scale
If your team adopted a four-day workweek, how would you expect your personal productivity to change?
Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Decrease significantlyMax:Increase significantly
Q13
Long Text
Based on your responses in this survey, is there anything else we should consider about a four-day workweek for your team or role?
Q14
Dropdown
What is your current employment status?
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Fixed-term/Contract
- Intern/Apprentice
- Other
- Prefer not to say
Q15
Opinion Scale
How satisfied are you with your current four-day work schedule overall?
Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very dissatisfiedMax:Very satisfied
Q16
Opinion Scale
How acceptable would it be to stagger days off across the team (e.g., not everyone off on the same day)?
Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Completely unacceptableMax:Completely acceptable
Q17
Dropdown
Which department or function best describes your role?
- Engineering/IT
- Product Management
- Design/UX
- Sales
- Marketing
- Customer Support/Success
- Operations
- Finance
- HR/People
- Legal/Compliance
- Other
- Prefer not to say
Q18
Multiple Choice
If a four-day workweek were offered, which schedule format would you most prefer?
- 4×10 (four 10-hour days) at same weekly pay
- 4×8 (four 8-hour days) with a modest pay reduction
- Alternate 4-day and 5-day weeks (e.g., 9/80)
- Core hours with flexible coverage across four days
- Keep my current schedule
- Other
Q19
Ranking
Please rank the following priorities in order of importance to you if we moved to a four-day workweek.
- Work-life balance
- Total weekly hours
- Pay level
- Customer/partner responsiveness
- Team collaboration
- Scheduling predictability
Drag to rank
Q20
Multiple Choice
Are you a people manager?
- Yes
- No
- Prefer not to say
Q21
Dropdown
How long have you worked at the company?
- Less than 6 months
- 6–12 months
- 1–2 years
- 3–5 years
- 6+ years
- Prefer not to say
Q22
Dropdown
Which region best describes your primary working time zone?
- Americas
- EMEA
- APAC
- Multiple regions
- Other
- Prefer not to say
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Combines closed-ended schedule and trade-off questions (schedule format, longer-hours acceptability, meeting reduction, staggered days off) with a ranking exercise on priorities, so HR gets both structured and comparative data
- Includes an AI follow-up interview that lets employees elaborate on their four-day workweek preferences in their own words, going beyond fixed-choice answers
- Captures operational risk concerns and productivity expectations directly from staff, plus an open-text catch-all question, giving leadership qualitative context for feasibility decisions
- Segments responses by work arrangement, employment status, department, manager status, tenure, and time zone, enabling cross-cut analysis of who supports or resists the change
SurveyMonkey
Employee Engagement Survey Template For TeamsThis is a general employee engagement template, not one built specifically around four-day workweek feasibility or schedule trade-offs. It's a fielding-ready form teams could adapt, but any workweek-specific questions would need to be authored from scratch. Useful as a broad HR pulse-check rather than a targeted schedule-policy tool.
What it does well
- Backed by a well-established survey platform with broad distribution and reporting features
- Template is ready to field quickly for general engagement measurement
- Likely benefits from benchmark data given SurveyMonkey's scale of engagement survey usage
Where it falls short
- Not tailored to four-day workweek trade-offs (staggered days off, longer hours, meeting reduction) so those specifics must be built manually
- Static question set with no adaptive AI follow-up probing on individual responses
- No published methodology for how questions were validated or scored
SurveySparrow
Work Schedule Change Request Form TemplateThis template is framed as an individual schedule-change request form rather than an organization-wide feasibility study on adopting a four-day workweek. It's fielding-ready for one-off requests but doesn't cover team-level trade-off analysis, operational risk assessment, or company-wide sentiment. Best suited for HR intake workflows, not policy-evaluation research.
What it does well
- Purpose-built for capturing individual schedule change requests with relevant fields
- Simple, ready-to-deploy form structure
- Likely integrates with SurveySparrow's broader HR form and automation tools
Where it falls short
- Designed for individual requests, not aggregate workforce feasibility or preference measurement
- No adaptive AI interview or voice interview component to probe reasoning behind requests
- No built-in mechanism to compare trade-off acceptability (e.g., longer days vs. staggered off-days) across the workforce
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