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I hope research on this continues. I’m willing to bet that we don’t even have to increase the hours for the 4 days of work and there would be a similar result.
by willio58 5y ago
I hope research on this continues. I’m willing to bet that we don’t even have to increase the hours for the 4 days of work and there would be a similar result.
Every time I truly run out of time for work in a week, it is due to poor management/planning and too many meetings. Obviously anecdotal.
I think we (as a society) are wayyy off to one side of the bell curve of productivity vs hours worked. If I had to guess I’d say a work week of 24 hours would be perfect (6 hours for 4 days). This doesn’t include lunches or breaks. If we had less time to waste we would waste less time.
- oliv__ 5y ago"If we had less time to waste we would waste less time." Citation needed here. I personally wouldn't be so sure about that
- mlyle 5y agoI think that the evidence that productivity rises as the workweek shortens provides some evidence of this. There's only so many hours you can be productive-- energy is limited. Employers usually can't insist that you're all-business working at maximum productivity for a 40 hour week because most people, in practice, don't/can't come anywhere close to attaining this and it's enough time. So the door is opened to random work social conversations, checking facebook, personal phone calls, etc. Further, the perceived cost of a questionably-valued meeting goes down as there's more hours in the week to fill. Shortening the work week and demanding similar productivity would be good for everyone, I think.