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> I've seen companies where this happens, and people have Friday afternoons off because they already did their hours that week. How is that a bad thing?

• koonsolo 6y ago
  Not saying it's a bad thing, just saying that it might not improve productivity compared to their peers that still want to finish that one thing on Friday before the weekend starts. But indeed those employees (programmers, etc) saw that as a benefit of doing no more than 40 hour per week.
  • rerx 6y ago
    > finish that one thing on Friday before the weekend starts Sometimes you might fix that one bug that would haunt you over the weekend otherwise, I grant you that. More often than that, feeling that one has to enable oneself to finish stuff at the end of the week leads to fewer plans on Friday nights, too little socializing outside of work, less restful weekends. And those kill productivity and company culture in the medium term. In the short term I have seen my share of lost productivity because people feel like deploying hardly thought through changes (if only to internal system) on Friday afternoons to get it done that week.