Why not ask people to work 6 days a week then? /s I'd disagree about your work compounds part. A fresher mind, due to more leisure time, will solve problems f

Why not ask people to work 6 days a week then? /s I'd disagree about your work compounds part. A fresher mind, due to more leisure time, will solve problems faster and reach insights quicker. I've seen friends ramp up their work time and the thing I notice that goes downhill the fastest is their decision making ability. When you work longer hours, you have less time to think about harder problems so you push off making those decisions which may take 30 or 60 minutes of focused thinking about. With more free time, employees can have more energy to make decisions faster and better [1] We already know that working overtime leads to poorer results [2]. The companies I know of that have tried 4 day work weeks have found that total productivity has improved - not just productivity per hour. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/efficiency-up-turnover-down-sweden-experiments-with-six-hour-working-day https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/efficiency-up-... [2] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-143/pdfs/2004-143.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-143/pdfs/2004-143.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20090824001133/http://www.curt.org/pdf/156.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20090824001133/http://www.curt.or...