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For me, an important takeaway from reading this article was to consider the type of employment they trialled it on. The trial was in a retirement home, which i
by raesene9 10y ago
For me, an important takeaway from reading this article was to consider the type of employment they trialled it on.
The trial was in a retirement home, which is by design somewhere that needs 24x7 cover. This means that any reduction in hours needs to be covered by more staff, obviously necessitating more expense.
What would be far more interesting to me, is a trial on an industry like software development where output isn't measured in number of hours but more in the product created. It would be interesting to see if a reduction in hours negatively or positively affected the quality/quantity of code produced.
- dogma1138 10y agoSoftware industry is driven by plenty of workers where work hours equal to output, maybe not development but then in the software industry in many cases development isn't the bulk of the workforce. Sure everyone can be an engineer, I've seen companies that give a title of "customer services engineer" to their phone banks, but at the end support staff which unless you work at a startup can be as high as 80% of the work force does need to be present for as many hours as possible, even 24/7 in many cases.
- raesene9 10y agosure but I specifically said I was interested in seeing a trial where hours worked doesn't equal output, because that would be an interesting comparison to this trial, didn't make any comment about "the software industry"