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Are you claiming a 4-day work week would result in less productivity? The article makes a good case for the opposite. How do you explain the "paradoxical magi
by ken 8y ago
Are you claiming a 4-day work week would result in less productivity? The article makes a good case for the opposite.
How do you explain the "paradoxical magic" in the final third of the article where, in every historical case of shortening work hours, "management was surprised to discover that output actually increased — and that expensive mistakes and accidents decreased"? Or the recent example of the Boston firm that took a day off in the middle of every week, and whose clients "reported an improvement in service"?
Are there any examples of companies going to a 4-day-week and reporting decreased productivity?
- lev99 8y agoIf someone is overworked their productivity decreases. If you start cutting hours their productivity will increase up to a point, when they become underworked. What's the right amount of worked? You cannot keep cutting hours and expect productivity to go up indefinitely. In addition, the right number of hours probably has some variability among the population. I'm very much against a one sized fits all amount work environment.