The acronym TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) may soon lose its popularity, being replaced by TGIT (Thank God It's Thursday). The change is due to the growing popularity of the four-day working week, which has become the standard for many companies and municipalities. The benefits of the four-day work week appear to extend well beyond the organization to the employee and society at large. In an attempt to illustrate this point, the current investigation considers the advantages and disadvantages of the four-day working week, examining the issue from the perspective of the organisation, the employer and society. Through a careful review of each stakeholder's views it will be possible to demonstrate the value of the four-day working week and what recommendations should be made to make TGIT the standard over TGIF. Implications of the Four-Day Workweek For Organizations The Development of the Four-Day Workweek The daily workweek originated in the 1970s as a theoretical practice to help organizations optimize operations while saving resources and improving the quality of life of workers ( Poor, 2010). Beginning in the 1980s, the use of the four-day work week began to accelerate, and the Department of Labor began keeping performance records for companies using this work arrangement (Poor, 2010). Although the Department of Labor continues to monitor alternative work arrangements, Poor says four-hour work weeks have morphed into flexible work arrangements with companies offering workers a wide range of programs to buy time off from traditional work schedules. 5/40. Although efforts to evaluate the impact of the four-day workweek have moved towards a general classification of flexitime outcomes, the four-day workweek remains the primary tool used by organizations to deliver… half of the paper ... ...(2013). The four-day work week. CNN money. Retrieved from http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/09/news/economy/shorter-work-week/.Lee, BY, & DeVoe, S.E. (2012). Flexible hours and profitability. Industrial Relations, 51(2), 298-316.Poor, R. (2010). How and why flexible working weeks were born. Connecticut Law Review, 42(4), 1047-1057. Workplace flexibility survey. (2011). World at work. Retrieved from http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/adimLink?id=48160.Travis, M. (2010). What difference does a day make, or not? Work/family balance and four-day work week. Connecticut Law Review, 42(4), 1223-1266. Van der Klis, M., & Karsten, L. (2009). The commuting family as an adaptive geographical strategy for work-family conciliation. Community, Work and Family, 12(3), 339-354.West, J,P., Condrey, S.E., & Rush, C.L. (2010). Implementation of the four-day work week. Public Director, 39(3), 68-73.