I believe that most management just want people to do more work for the same amount of money. It's less about how many hours are necessary to succeed, it's abou

I believe that most management just want people to do more work for the same amount of money. It's less about how many hours are necessary to succeed, it's about "how much more can I squeeze out of my employees." Those companies that are experimenting with work schedules are also trying to squeeze more out of their employees... just in a different way. They may recognize that causing employees to burn-out is a problem and are looking for ways to optimize the employee output. It isn't necessarily a bad thing to optimize for employees generating better output. It's only bad when employee morale is completely ignored.