Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by Vysero on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:40AM (#21442620)

TBH I get 90% of my work done in the first 4-5 hours at work and then my productivity drops of significantly. When I was an independent roofing contractor me and my employees only worked in good conditions and only worked 4 days a week. I always paid them for 40 hours. I did really well as an independent contractor despite the offset in time.

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Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by shaklee3 on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:45AM (#21442663)

Do you mind me asking why you got off of it? Housing downturn?

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Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by dillonmckay on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:54AM (#21442747)

Not OP, but that is quite a physically demanding job with alot of time in the sun.

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Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by blotter_paper on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:12AM (#21442938)

Bad on the back and knees, high risk of falling, strokes from heat for older roofers, and the careless ones start throwing hammers around. (I'm not a roofer, but used to be a jack of all trades that sometimes did roofing alongside actual roofers.)

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Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by magashna on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:13AM (#21442942)

No one wants to roof forever. It's hard and dangerous.

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Re:Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales by Vysero on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:41PM (#21444862)

Yes as other have stated the profession is rather hard on your body. I suffered some serious back problems as a result of the manual labor and decided to peruse my interests in engineering instead.

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