Metro Atlanta Companies Look For Incentives To Keep Employees Around

As the pandemic continues to change the way we think about work, Atlanta companies are implementing changes like shorter work weeks and hybrid workspaces to accommodate remote employees.

Tracey DeFine says she’s been a proponent of a four-day workweek for more than a decade. Now, a global health pandemic and shifting attitudes about work are giving the company she helps lead a chance to implement that plan.

“The pandemic, COVID, the remote work, it taught employers a lot about their respective businesses,” said DeFine. “And for us, it taught us a lot about our employees.”

DeFine is vice president of corporate operations with Galt Pharmaceuticals in Marietta. She says they learned their workers could be counted on to be productive, even when they weren’t behind a desk in an office full time