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It sounds too good to be true, but companies around the world that have cut their work week have found that it leads to higher productivity, more motivated staff and less burnout.
"It is much healthier and we do a better job if we're not working crazy hours," said Jan Schulz-Hofen, founder of Berlin-based project management software company Planio, who introduced a four-day week to the company's 10-member staff earlier this year.
In New Zealand, trust company Perpetual Guardian reported a fall in stress and a jump in staff engagement after it tested a 32-hour week earlier this year.
Even in Japan, the government is encouraging companies to allow Monday mornings off, although other schemes in the workaholic country to persuade employees to take it easy have had little effect.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday December 21 2018, @08:45PM (1 child)
Don't see why people modded this flamebait unless they themselves got triggered for staying late because they don't work fast enough. Working in government I don't often see people who are good at their jobs staying late unless there is a specific reason for it. Examples would be something like year end where you need to turn around the CAFR within a couple of weeks of closing the prior fiscal year, improvements in process and automation can cut the workload but not much else, and bringing in seasonal work for just a few weeks is pointless when you would need to train them. The people I most often see staying late are those that somehow convince their managers that they need overtime because they can't finish their job in the allotted time. My favorite example of seeing this was a woman who was constantly complaining that she had to work overtime to get her work done, she was only able to manage paying 10 contract invoices a day when the average of the other workers in the unit was 40. Her individual contracts were no more difficult, just slow and inefficient.
Yeah there are shitty managers that expect too much and I imagine this is the difference between working in the private sector and working in government. Private sector more likely to have demanding managers and government more likely to have shitty employees.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @09:25PM
I wasn't the modder and didn't really agree but I think I understand why. Most burnout issues are on the company for driving their teams too hard with unrealistic expectations, running people regularly over 40 hrs/week is shitty behavior and means they simply want to save on salary costs. So Deathmonkey kinda comes off as victim blaming, though I think he has a valid perspective and wasn't being shitty.
We need more worker solidarity, they busted the unions and have traded the well being of workers for more profit.