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I don't get it. Hours cut by 20% and no wage cut means 25% man-hour production gain for «success». Did they achieve this? ---- Okay, okay, I stand corrected,

I don't get it. Hours cut by 20% and no wage cut means 25% man-hour production gain for «success». Did they achieve this? ---- Okay, okay, I stand corrected, 10% hours cut requires only +11% to production to stay on par. Still quite much, but not impossible (I think).

boomboomsubban 5y ago
Hours were cut by 10%, four nine hour days, and "success" was productivity stayed the same or improved. I haven't seen the full study, but the article claims it succeeded.
paxys 5y ago
You are making the assumption that 1 unit of time spent on the clock maps exactly to 1 unit of productive output, which I'm willing to bet is very far from the case.
- justshowpost 5y ago
  Very likely. Chances what this whole experiment was initiated by the studies confirming what employees are slacking at Fridays anyway.
  - MrDresden 5y ago
    I'm an Icelander, and am not so sure that is the case. Though I was not part of the test in question, my union (which thankfully are still strong in Iceland) did negotiate a reduction in working hours so as to allow every member to take a half a day off once a month without a pay cut. The catch being that this half a day has to be used inside each month and does not get transfered over to the next (use it or loose it). This option has been on the table for a little more than a year now. What I have observed (n=1) (in my team in a software department) is that at months end most of us have this half a day off and then scramble to figure out how we can use it. This is in part since the work place is already very flexible when it comes to the employees live's. Need to leave at 15:00 to pick up the kids? Go for it. Have a dentist appointment at 9:00 and will miss standup? No worries. If you get the tasks done, it wont be an issue. And as such, most of the time, there isn't this longing for the weekend which I'd think causes productivity to drop on fridays. There sure is to be slacking in our culture, and as a teenager I sure did experience work that dulled the brain. But overall I don't think there is a whole working class that is just playing with their thumbs after lunch on fridays. It would just seem "off" to an Icelander (n=1).

boomboomsubban 5y ago

Hours were cut by 10%, four nine hour days, and "success" was productivity stayed the same or improved. I haven't seen the full study, but the article claims it succeeded.

paxys 5y ago

You are making the assumption that 1 unit of time spent on the clock maps exactly to 1 unit of productive output, which I'm willing to bet is very far from the case.

justshowpost 5y ago
Very likely. Chances what this whole experiment was initiated by the studies confirming what employees are slacking at Fridays anyway.
- MrDresden 5y ago
  I'm an Icelander, and am not so sure that is the case. Though I was not part of the test in question, my union (which thankfully are still strong in Iceland) did negotiate a reduction in working hours so as to allow every member to take a half a day off once a month without a pay cut. The catch being that this half a day has to be used inside each month and does not get transfered over to the next (use it or loose it). This option has been on the table for a little more than a year now. What I have observed (n=1) (in my team in a software department) is that at months end most of us have this half a day off and then scramble to figure out how we can use it. This is in part since the work place is already very flexible when it comes to the employees live's. Need to leave at 15:00 to pick up the kids? Go for it. Have a dentist appointment at 9:00 and will miss standup? No worries. If you get the tasks done, it wont be an issue. And as such, most of the time, there isn't this longing for the weekend which I'd think causes productivity to drop on fridays. There sure is to be slacking in our culture, and as a teenager I sure did experience work that dulled the brain. But overall I don't think there is a whole working class that is just playing with their thumbs after lunch on fridays. It would just seem "off" to an Icelander (n=1).