I've worked at a couple of companies now that introduce a "month off" day, which isn't tied to a particular holiday. At one place, they made it a "use it or los

I've worked at a couple of companies now that introduce a "month off" day, which isn't tied to a particular holiday. At one place, they made it a "use it or lose it; your choice", so typically the last Friday of the month became an unofficial holiday. At my current place, it's preselected to be a day everyone takes off together. When this was introduced at one company, they noticed that "sick days" actually dropped massively, to the point it really cost them nothing to introduce month off days. Personally, it's amazing what that one day does for your mental health. You just pile on chores or take an extra day off, and boom - 4 day weekend which feels like a real vacation. And because everyone realistically is off together, you're not missing much. I kind of see the 4 day week as an amplified version of the month off day, and would be curious to see if there's any comparison between the two ideas. And I'd be curious what the frequency of "sick days" taken are in a 4-day week company vs a 5-day company