The day is dawning on a four-day work week:
A true four-day workweek entails full-timers clocking about 30 hours instead of 40. There are many reasons why this is appealing today: families are struggling to cover child care in the absence of daycares and schools; workplaces are trying to reduce the number of employees congregating in offices each day; and millions of people have lost their jobs.
A shorter work week could allow parents to cobble together child care, allow workplaces to stagger attendance and, theoretically, allow the available work to be divided among more people who need employment.
The most progressive shorter work week entails no salary reductions. This sounds crazy, but it rests on peer-reviewed research into shorter work weeks, which finds workers can be as productive in 30 hours as they are in 40, because they waste less time and are better-rested.
30 hours is for pikers. The !Kung work about 20.
(Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Saturday June 06 2020, @01:23PM
You’re right, there is far to much of that, especially in tech when you stick an MBA type in a leadership position.
On the other hand, there are managers who actually are technically competent, but have to spend a lot of effort getting some individual contributors to stop chasing squirrels, and start focusing on the objective without bruising their egos.
Middle managers do get a pass far too often, though. I’ll grant you that.