Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output

Re:Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut ... by dalbasal on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @11:37AM (#19200192)

Yep... typical Schrodinger's product evangelist troubles.

I'd make a third distinction though. You can be paid for time, work or outcomes. Outcomes and work aren't the same thing, necessarily.

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Re:Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut ... by Bartweiss on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @12:40PM (#19200926)

> You can be paid for time, work or outcomes.

And all three have uses. It seems like one of the common mistakes we make when talking about labor productivity is underestimating time as an output. We see a job's time-per-task decline and ask why it remains a full-time job, but in many cases the answer is that part of the job is being available 8 hours a day, and more dead time between tasks hasn't changed that.

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Re:Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut ... by calvinmorrison on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @01:42PM (#19201543)

Yeah but my job has all three elements. Long term improvements and projects, being on call and making sure all the widgits are spinning, and doing tasks for X time a day

If I was making 62 burgers an hour it would be easier to quantify but rarely are things so fixed

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