Re:4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity
by steveBK123 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @02:26PM
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Well yes, should lol.
I guess my point/question is what types/sizes/percent of organizations this would be feasible.
How many of us work nights/weekends because of lack of strategy & constant fire drills.
How many people have come back from a long weekend to a 4 day week and noticed it's just 5 days of meetings/work rescheduled to fit into 4 days.
I'll always remember the stunned response years ago while moving when my wife picked up my cell phone (my hands weren't free) to what was a production trading outage at my firm.. and said we are off today, we are in the middle of moving, we have no internet or computers plugged in. On a 30 person dev team in a 20K+ person firm and we had cross team direct dev team escalation to my personal cell phone because no one could be bothered following escalation procedures/rotas/call lists/etc.
My fear would generally be taking the 20% pay cut and not really getting 20% less work/time expected.
If you're part of a team, the team should be big enough to be resilient to this change (and everyone else should do this too, and your team may need to expand by 15-20%).
If you manage a team, your team should be skilled enough to work without your direction one day a week. If they aren't, you need to step up and develop better procedures.