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I'm saying negative or neutral to absolute growth, not to opportunity. Basically, what would you have said prior to knowing about this experiment if I asked yo
by didibus 6y ago
I'm saying negative or neutral to absolute growth, not to opportunity.
Basically, what would you have said prior to knowing about this experiment if I asked you: "What do you think will happen if we do this experiment to productivity?"
I think a lot of people would have said probably you'll see a decrease. But instead we saw a 40% increase.
Now I'm assuming Microsoft has YoY data, so I don't know if 40% yearly increase is the norm, above the norm or below and that be interesting to know.
But still, this 40% increase is surprising to what I think I would have guessed and assume a lot others would have too, that you'd see a decrease or maybe neutral.
So I'm not saying it tells us 4 day work week is better then 5 or 6 or 7. But it seems like a viable model that still allows for quite a bit of productive growth. And that's already a good start for it, one I'm a little surprised about.
Cause it means that possibly time worked has minimal impact on productivity, at least within a 1 day margin. It seems other factors might be more important, maybe simply strategic decisions, cutting out of time wastes like useless meetings or discussions, etc.