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Saved me a click, TY! France also tried out shorter work week and the articles I read about it implied it was a failure. Maybe it was biased reporting so that
by inanutshellus 2y ago
Saved me a click, TY!
France also tried out shorter work week and the articles I read about it implied it was a failure. Maybe it was biased reporting so that the idea wouldn't catch on here, though.
- sbuttgereit 2y agoIt could also be cultural differences, a selection bias in the participants, differing criteria for "success/productivity"... or a thousand other reasons, too. It's easy to jump to a conclusion or speculate why a desired outcome wasn't the actual outcome; but the best you can probably say is you just don't know why one was a "success" and the other a "failure" and look for a study of the reasons for a given outcome. I find it rare that popular reporting gets to the nuance required to really understand a research outcome much less to ascribe plausible, grounded reasons for that outcome.
- GrooveSAN 2y agoFrench here, working/living in France, and not aware of any state-backed “shorter work week” test. According to my research, only SME applied it so far (with 2 exceptions of 1000 and 11k-employees). And no particular consensus on the results (many companies stayed on their 4d agenda after the initial phases, but again, we’re talking SME here).