30 companies

City of Moreton Bay
69 · GoodDelivering sustainable services to enhance the lifestyle of Moreton Bay residents.

City of Gold Coast
68 · GoodAustralia's second-largest council - serving the Gold Coast with a 36-hour week worked over a 9-day fortnight, every second Friday off.

Grant Thornton
67 · GoodGrant Thornton Australia is a leading accounting, advisory, and consulting firm offering innovative client solutions with a strong commitment to work-life balance and employee wellbeing.

Tenterfield Shire Council
67 · GoodNSW high-country council in the "Birthplace of Our Nation" — "Enjoy a 9-day fortnight" verbatim on its white-collar ads.

Nambucca Valley Council
67 · GoodNSW Mid-North Coast council — "Fortnightly rostered day off (RDO)" verbatim on its office ads; 9-day fortnight on 35-hour indoor conditions.

Livingstone Shire Council
65 · GoodCapricorn Coast council at Yeppoon — "Fortnightly RDOs - because balance matters" verbatim in its own ads; 9-day fortnight across streams.

Gympie Regional Council
65 · GoodQueensland council an hour from the Sunshine Coast — office roles come with a verbatim "Nine-day fortnight" in the benefits list.

Gladstone Regional Council
65 · GoodQueensland council advertising white-collar roles as "Permanent Full Time, 9-day fortnight" under its Better Balance, Better Benefits programme.

Bundaberg Regional Council
62 · GoodQueensland regional council serving the Bundaberg region - with a 9-day fortnight across council roles.

Emesent
62 · GoodAustralian robotics company behind Hovermap — autonomous drone and LiDAR scanning technology used to map mines, tunnels and infrastructure that people cannot safely enter.

Georges River Council
70 · GreatSouthern-Sydney council advertising "Enjoy a 9-day fortnight" across its professional roles — 70 hours a fortnight.

Woollahra Municipal Council
70 · GreatSydney eastern-suburbs council where indoor staff work a 35-hour week over nine days — a fortnightly RDO for every role.

QBE Insurance Group
69 · GoodGlobal insurer with 135+ years of experience, operating in 28 countries and offering comprehensive insurance solutions with flexible work arrangements including 9-day fortnights.

Townsville City Council
68 · GoodNorth Queensland's largest local government — full-time corporate roles run on a 9-day fortnight at 36.25 hours per week.

Cumberland City Council
67 · GoodWestern-Sydney council running a 70-hour fortnight with a rostered day off every fortnight.

Riverina Water
67 · GoodNSW county-council water utility in Wagga Wagga — a rostered day off on a 9-day fortnight is a listed benefit for its whole workforce.

Wollongong City Council
67 · GoodNSW coastal council whose staff enjoy a 35-hour week or 9-day fortnight with a regular rostered day off.

Charters Towers Regional Council
65 · GoodNorth Queensland gold-rush town council — full-time roles are 72.5 hours a fortnight with a fortnightly RDO and five weeks' leave.

Fraser Coast Regional Council
65 · GoodQueensland council for Hervey Bay and Maryborough — its white-collar job ads bind a "9-day fortnight" into the package line.

North Burnett Regional Council
65 · GoodRural Queensland council whose office roles are advertised with "Schedule: 9-day fortnight" — every second Friday off in the North Burnett.

Rockhampton Regional Council
65 · GoodCentral Queensland council where full-time office roles run Monday to Friday on a 9-day fortnight — 72.5 hours per fortnight.

Saab Australia
65 · GoodAustralian arm of Swedish defence & security electronics group Saab. Engineering and software roles in Adelaide and Melbourne with an opt-in 9-day fortnight.

Sam Crawford Architects
65 · GoodSydney architecture studio (Newtown, NSW, 22 ppl) with permanent 9-day fortnight since ~Dec 2021. Every second Friday is "Mies Day" — Mies van der Rohe's "less is more".

Wyndham City Council
65 · GoodOne of Australia's fastest-growing councils (Melbourne's west) — full-time roles carry a fortnightly RDO as part of the package.
How we rank these companies
These companies are ordered by their work-life score— a 0–100 rating we calculate from each employer’s published policies, averaging 68 across the 30 companies on this page.
- Contracted hours carry the most weight — the fewer hours a full-time week actually is, the higher the score. A 40-hour week earns nothing here.
- Remote and schedule flexibility comes next: whether the role is genuinely remote, how much say you have over your hours, and whether core hours are fixed.
- Paid leave is scored above a 15-day baseline, so a statutory minimum adds nothing and a genuinely generous allowance does.
- The schedule itself can add or subtract. A genuine reduced-day week scores positively; a full-week perk such as unlimited PTO scores negatively, because it is not a reduction in hours.
Every company starts from the same baseline and is scored on the policies recorded in its profile, so a company that publishes more detail is scored more precisely. The same score appears on that company’s own page. Read the full scoring rubric →
How we curate this list
We track companies that publicly offer reduced-hours schedules — 4-day weeks, 9-day fortnights, half-day Fridays, and more. This page refreshes daily; companies that drop the policy are removed. Read about our editorial standards →
Last reviewed: August 19, 2026
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