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I don't even really understand what this means. Like, I would guess ~half of workers no longer clock in or out these days, I know I haven't for a majority of my

• jfengel 5y ago
  The minimum size in this experiment was 20 people in a company. So not the kind of place that had exactly one person manning a cash register. Each company handled it differently, but presumably for something like retail, it would be a matter of scheduling shifts such that some predictable time of low utilization would have lower staff. Note that although it's only a 4 day work week, it was also 9 hour days, so you're only cutting hours 10%. So, find the slow time and schedule somebody to leave before it. Or something like that; it varies from organization to organization. Or maybe they do need to hire another person. If they've got 20 employees whose hours have been cut by 10%, then they hire two more people. It costs more, but overall, they found that it improved life enough to be worth it. No idea how it would apply to small businesses. Probably, it doesn't. But it gives their employees a bit of negotiating power for more money. They think it will help, rather than harm, the overall economy.