Re:A firm that starts work at 9.06am
by cyberferret on Monday November 21, 2016 @06:45AM
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My bad - It is not to make an even hour at the end of the fortnight. I asked a public service friend of mine and he said because there was an odd number of hours that our public servants had to work per fortnight (as the article I posted also pointed out). I assume it all works out evenly over 365.25 days or something? I've never worked in the public service, so cannot speak for their methods.
How isn't that already the case with 10 x 8 hour days? or 8.5 etc?
Your linked article mentions another interesting idea: that an additional 9 minutes a day is more than 5 days a year.
I used to work for a medium sized company (~500 staff) that made us all work 10 extra minutes each day "off the clock", but then gave it back in the form of a number of whole and half days throughout the year when the company would be closed for business. Usually that meant that we'd get an extra day off before a long weekend or bank holiday, an additional day before christmas, that sort of thing. This was on top of 33 days of paid annual leave, so a sweet deal.