Dan James of CEOBlues reports that they have been working too many hours at silverorange over the last 18 months…so they are all taking Fridays off this summer….

This summer silverorange is conducting an experiment with the normal working week. We’re making it shorter.

For the past eighteen months we’ve been working too many hours per week. Last summer was a write-off as we had a few major projects being worked on. That work spilled into the fall and of course it kept cascading into the winter. We finally dug ourselves out from under our crippling workload this spring. We made a promise to ourselves to make this summer better than last.

For July and August of 2008 silverorange will be offline on Fridays.

Our hope is that this refreshing change of pace will make the remaining four work days much more effective. Our first Friday of rest is tomorrow.

We’ll see how it goes.

There you have it…a great example of acting on work-life balance issues by a small business.  How often do you hear of businesses that truly agree that their employees are working too many hours?  This is one of the hard truths that many businesses (big and small) don’t like to even talk about…often because they don’t know how to begin to deal with it….

Silverorange is a great example of "just getting it" and actually doing something about it. Enjoy your Fridays silverorange team!