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Work Fewer Hours, yet be More Productive

posted by martyb on Sunday July 22 2018, @05:34AM   
from the France-says-"we-got-this" dept.

RS3 writes:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-business-says-a-4-day-week-with-pay-for-5-works/

The idea sprang from research that found people are typically engaged at work for fewer than three hours a day, said Perpetual Guardian founder Andrew Barnes. He said he started to think about the pressures that employees are under -- sick kids or waiting for the plumber -- and how those stresses affect productivity and cut back on hours spent in the office.

For some of us, less stress results in better sleep, resulting in fewer mistakes and more productivity.

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• Re:What I was told (Score: 4, Interesting) by bob_super on Sunday July 22 2018, @07:42AM

  by bob_super (1357) on Sunday July 22 2018, @07:42AM (#710687)

  Did a stint coding in a French bank, pre-internet (existed, but few had it at home). People worked continuously from 8 to 12 and from 1 to 5, with a 15-minute break in the middle of each period, where yapping was at the coffee machine.
  Interestingly, that matched the actual school hours at high school and engineering school. As if having training to work at the right rhythm could be important.

  There was a lot more work done than in my recent US companies, where you're being distracted every few minutes by random chatter and messages.

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