Working fewer hours would make us more productive

Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by pc86 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:19AM (#10843622)

Honestly this seems like the ideal scenario. Full pay, likely no argument from superiors about the amount of work you'd accomplish, and the ability to take long weekend trips without wasting a day or two of PTO.

I only see a few possible downsides:

- Someone expecting you to be in the office and you're not, particularly if they're not familiar with your schedule.

- For developers the same issues with 60+ work weeks often come up in hours 7-10 of a single working day. Off-campus lunch for a full hour (or more) would probably be important, which pushes your full day to 11+ hours.

- Using 10 hours of PTO when you take a day off, but I guess that's what you get for getting the 4-day weekends :)

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Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by douche on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:39AM (#10843756)

This is the schedule my father has, working as a mechanic in a power plant. It's pretty solid.

The only (kind of ironic) downside is that holiday weeks are kind of sucky. The holiday day only pays 8 hours, so he ends up having to still work four eight hour days those weeks.

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Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by logfromblammo on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @11:18AM (#10843997)

Working 3 10-hour days during a week and 6 5-hour days during a week seems equally doable, but I think I would get more complex, brainy problems solved with the latter, and more simpleminded grunt work done with the former.

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