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From 2019, this is a popular topic on HN! 210 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21433710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21433710 242 commen

• jonas21 5y ago
  The top comment in the third link points out that Microsoft Japan later walked back the productivity claim: In the announcement dated October 31, one of the listed "improvements" from the 2019 Summer Work-Life Choice Challenge was an increase of 39.9% in labor productivity (sales revenue per employee) in August 2019 compared to August 2018, with a graph below. While this number is factual, it is not solely the result of this challenge, and was achieved due to a number of different factors. To avoid misunderstanding, we have removed that claim from the above summary of the direct effects of the challenge.
  • vsareto 5y ago
    I guess they had to attribute this boost to something, but it was politically unsavory for it to be the number of days worked