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How is it a big leap? If an economist says productivity will not take a huge hit, and meanwhile employees' QoL greatly improves, seems like a very small leap.
by WhompingWindows 8y ago
How is it a big leap? If an economist says productivity will not take a huge hit, and meanwhile employees' QoL greatly improves, seems like a very small leap.
- stevesearer 8y agoTo be fair, Adam Grant's LinkedIn post is 3 sentences long and hardly offers much thought on the subject. In the CNBC article, they reference a study of staff in a Swedish nursing home where they reduced the work day shifts from 8 hours to 6 hours. While productivity and quality of life may have increased, a quick calculation would show that the nursing home would now have to pay for 4 shifts of staff each day as opposed to only 3 shifts. Without knowing more about that particular nursing home, I'd imagine needing to employ an additional shift of people to be a pretty big hurdle to actually implementing such a program.
- debacle 8y agoMost people are not salaried knowledge workers. A hairdresser's hourly productivity doesn't increase if he works 6 hours instead of 8. A cashier's throughput wont increase notably if she only works 6 hours a day, and there's no effective means for that type of worker to "fit" 8 hours of work into a 6 hour day. What do you do with these people? Do you increase the minimum wage to something more inflation adjusted (upwards of $20/hr). Do you just cut their hours and be done with it? What do you do about the staffing shortages that a 30hr work week would create?
- fjsolwmv 8y agoYou hire more people to cover shifts. Service jobs are largely part-time anyway, sometimes intentionally to avoid paying benefits.
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- Apocryphon 8y agoSounds like a way to increase labor demand.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoRetailers in the UK prefer to hire part time staff because it gives them more resilience. One person off sick is less of a problem when you have 10 staff vs 5.