
Nicola Mendelsohn, head of Meta's Global Business Group, was enjoying the perks of a four-day workweek before it became popular.
A cornerstone of Mendelsohn’s career has been striking a balance between her personal and professional obligations—and never letting work take the upper hand. When her kids were young, she said at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen conference in San Diego on Wednesday, she took a pay cut to work a four-day workweek, so she could be around her children more and help raise them.