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<div type="image" title="Fintech company Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow and colleagues smile in photo" height="853" width="1280" msid="89279688" hostid="261"></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Bolt is adopting a permanent four-day workweek after a successful three-month trial.</li><li>Chief People Officer Jennifer Christie explained how the startup made the change.</li></ul>On a sunny morning in August, <keyword id="13038316" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ryan-breslow" source="Orion">Ryan Breslow</keyword> was meditating in the backyard of his Miami home when it hit him. He wanted to implement a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ecommerce-unicorn-bolt-adopts-4-day-week-after-productivity-improved-2022-1">permanent four-day workweek</a> at the company he founded, <keyword id="11898487" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fintech" source="Orion">fintech</keyword> startup Bolt. Breslow, who <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/31/ryanbreslow-bolt/">resigned from his CEO position</a> on Monday and is now the executive chairman, had been reading articles on the burgeoning <a href="https://buildremote.co/four-day-week/4-day-work-week-companies/">workplace trend</a> for months, quietly contemplating it. That summer day, he decided to move on his gut feeling that it might just work. One month later, Bolt launched a three-month pilot program, giving employees and executives a chance to see if the compressed workweek was a fit for them.It was a <a href="https://www.bolt.com/blog/what-bolters-are-saying-about-the-four-day-work-week/">resounding success</a>, according to employee feedback. Breslow implemented it as a permanent policy <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ecommerce-unicorn-bolt-adopts-4-day-week-after-productivity-improved-2022-1">in January</a> for the company's 600 employees. Job applications at the <keyword id="11894549" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="e-commerce" source="Orion">e-commerce</keyword> company have jumped 30% month over month, according to a company spokesperson. "We're never going back," Breslow wrote in a <a href="https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1478564004356317186?s=20">tweet</a> last month, citing heightened productivity and reported employee wellness. Bolt did not immediately respond to request for comment as to why Breslow stepped down from his CEO post. Bolt, a company that wants to make the checkout process quicker and easier for retailers, is on the cutting edge of what some say is the future of work. Employees are rethinking their work-life balance amid the pandemic and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ceos-executives-plan-address-the-great-resignation-in-2022-2022-1">the "Great Resignation."</a> The compressed work schedule has been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-yang-pandemic-highlights-importance-implementing-4-day-workweek-2020-8">gaining momentum</a> over the <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90501241/my-companys-always-had-4-day-workweeks-heres-why-theyre-more-important-than-ever">past few years</a>, but interest in it seems to have spiked over the past <a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-hutch-begins-six-month-four-day-work-week-trial">few weeks</a>."People feel really proud to work at Bolt," Bolt Chief People Officer Jennifer Christie told Insider. She explained how Bolt executed the change, the challenges leaders faced, and what the team learned from the process.<h2>How Bolt made the switch </h2><div type="image" title="Bolt's chief people officer Jennifer Christie" height="2211" width="2949" msid="89279685" hostid="261"></div>Bolt's <keyword id="11893566" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="leadership" source="Orion">leadership</keyword> team jumped into the deep end of the pool without really knowing how to swim. "It was, 'Let's just learn as we go,'" the chief people officer said. "'Let's test it out.'"The first key decision was whether to let employees choose the day they wanted off or establish one collective day. Breslow and the team went with the latter choice. Christie said, "We thought it would be easier for everyone to really take a step back if everyone took the same day off." Then, employees were informed of the three-month pilot and asked to take stock of their schedules. Workers moved meetings to Monday through Thursday and teams worked to cancel meetings they didn't feel were necessary or turn them into "asynchronous formats" like emails or videos that could be viewed at any time. Employees were also encouraged to speak with their managers if they felt their time was being wasted or spent on things that didn't help them achieve their goals. "We said, 'With those other four days, let's really sprint, let's do focused work, and let's not spend time on things that don't matter,'" said Christie, who's been involved in company conversations about the four-day workweek since October and joined the team officially on January 3.<h2>Dealing with challenges </h2>The shift hasn't been without its struggles. Fifteen percent of employees, specifically workers in sales, said they encountered "external-facing challenges" like planning meetings with prospective clients. To deal with this, employees were encouraged to either reschedule meetings to be sometime between Monday and Thursday or take the meeting and adjust their schedule the next week to make up for it. For example, an employee who had to take a one-hour phone call on Friday would tell their manager they were taking one hour off the following Monday. Another challenge was figuring out what to do when federal or company holidays rolled around. At first, the company counted the holiday as the day off for that week. For example, Labor Day, which falls on a Monday, was the day off, with workers working Tuesday through Friday that week. Some workers found this frustrating and confusing, so management walked back their decision, which resulted in multiple three-day weeks. People were surprised they could get their work done on those three days, Christie said. "I think people realized when you really kind of forced yourself to focus on the things that are most important, people even went further," she said. The other challenge is stress. Nearly 40% of the team said they felt more stress Monday through Thursday compared with a five-day schedule, according to company data. Christie said the company was continuing to reduce meetings and unnecessary tasks for employees to combat this. Still, she said, the benefits outweigh the challenges. In a company survey, 94% of employees and 91% of managers said they supported Breslow's decision to permanently adopt the four-day workweek. <h2>Encouraging other companies to consider it</h2>Overwhelmingly, workers are happier with the change. Eighty-four percent of Bolt employees said their work-life balance had improved. The same percentage reported being more productive at work. Since the pilot's launch, at least "a few" Fortune 500 companies have reached out to Bolt's team to learn more about the process of compressing the workweek. It's a sign, she said, that the policy can work for small, medium, and large companies. Christie likened the shift to a four-day workweek to adopting remote work. People thought it was impossible for industries like TV news and finance to go remote, but the majority did. "Before the pandemic, you heard so many companies say, you know, 'I think remote work is great, but, you know, that's only for tech companies and that can't ever work at my company,'" she said. "But behold, the pandemic hit and everyone figured it out." The compressed workweek, Christie said, has been driving job applications higher. Breslow and the executive team have been getting positive feedback from "across generations, across people with families, people without families," she said. "People are saying they are more present at home with their families, being able to do things that are more for their own wellness," she said. "Their friends and contacts on LinkedIn are asking if we're hiring."

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3659057" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bo-Burnham">Bo Burnham</keyword>'s new <a href="https://www.insider.com/emmys-nominees-winners-list-2021-7#variety-special-pre-recorded-19">Emmy-nominated special "Inside"</a> was in theaters for one weekend only.</li><li>Fans of the emotional special turned the moviegoing experience in a full-blown singalong event.</li><li>People on Twitter, TikTok, and Reddit posted videos online of their rowdy theater experiences.</li></ul>A subset of the American population has spent a large portion of the last two months fixated on <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/inside">Bo Burnham's Netflix "Inside."</a>They've memorized the lyrics to most of the 20-song album. They've <a href="https://www.insider.com/bo-burnham-inside-special-details-analysis-breakdown-2021-6">pored over every frame of the special.</a> And this past weekend, many of those fans crowded into movie theaters and got to collectively experience the roller coaster of emotions that comes with Burnham's latest creative work.I know because I'm one of them. Last week, starting on Thursday night, Burnham's "<keyword id="65017" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Inside">Inside</keyword>" played on select screens in North America for one weekend only. And based on my own theater experience (plus plenty of uploaded videos online) - many people broke the cardinal "stay silent" rule of cinema and turned the moviegoing experience into a collective singalong concert.Burnham himself apparently stopped by at least one Los Angeles movie theater and stood in the doorway of the sold out show. He got to witness the surreality of a theater full of people singing along to the satirical <a href="https://www.insider.com/bo-burnhams-inside-songs-ranked-2021-6">comedy tunes he wrote, like "Bezos I" and "All Eyes On Me."</a>"Thank you to everyone who saw ["Inside"] in a theater this past weekend," he wrote on Instagram. "The response has been surreal and too much to process but being able to see people enjoy it together was incredibly special and meant a lot."<h2>'Inside' wasn't a normal moviegoing experience because 'Inside' isn't a normal <keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword> special</h2><div type="image" title="Feeling in My Body Bo Burnham Inside special Netflix " height="1120" width="1493" msid="84800224" hostid="261"></div>Prior to the special's release in theaters, fans were <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/boburnham/comments/olk5fk/singing_in_the_theater_yay_or_nay/">debating whether it was appropriate to sing along or not</a>, but the nature of "Inside" and its release in theaters was unique.The special itself is a <a href="https://www.insider.com/bo-burnham-inside-special-details-analysis-breakdown-2021-6">musical masterpiece that tells a meta-story about the struggle to make "comedy"</a> in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and an increasingly dire climate change disaster (all without ever mentioning those three things specifically).Burnham's self-aware and introspective approach to comedy was deepened with this special, particularly with his ability to bring you into the mental headspace of a character dealing with intense anxiety and depression. "Inside" is both emotional and packed with incredible dark humor and satire that makes you laugh out loud, in addition to containing a number of extremely catchy songs. So of course, some of the biggest fans of the special would find it hard to resist singing along to it in theaters, even if that technically goes against standard theater etiquette.Most clearly anticipated the understanding of their fellow "Inside" viewers, because it was presumed that most fans paying money to watch a special they can see anytime on their own TVs or computer were there to enjoy it for the umpteenth time - not actually seeing it for the first time. <h2>People shared videos on Twitter, TikTok, and Reddit showing how theaters around the US were packed with singing fans</h2>More videos of rowdy theaters were <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/boburnham/comments/opt05c/get_your_fuckin_hands_up/">uploaded to the /r/boburnham subreddit.</a>On TikTok, people uploaded still more theater videos that showed viewers standing up and putting their hands in the air to follow along with Burnham's lyrical instruction in "All Eyes on Me," where he tells people, "get your f------ hands up" and "get on out of your seat." For many of the diehard "Inside" fans, "All Eyes On Me" is <a href="https://www.insider.com/bo-burnham-inside-all-eyes-on-me-analysis-ending-explained-2021-6">the most powerful song in the special</a>.As I once put it, listening to "All Eyes On Me" is <a href="https://www.insider.com/bo-burnhams-inside-songs-ranked-2021-6">like having a religious experience with my own mental disorder</a>. It's no wonder people seeing it on a massive movie-theater screen were drawn to their feet, or moved to put their hands in the air.In the future, maybe "Inside" will become a limited theatrical event with a more official singalong status. But for now, Burnham's fans are relegated back to <a href="https://www.insider.com/bo-burnham-inside-special-songs-streaming-spotify-2021-6">replaying the album on Spotify</a> or singing in their living rooms.

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