We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon

Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by SkyPuncher on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:11AM (#31654557)

> As for the goal to maintain 100% productivity whilst cutting back on hours, I'm confident that they will succeed. In fact, they'll succeed in this without requiring some kind of brilliant plan, as this recalibration happens automatically.

I worked as a contractor for a while with a 32 hour/week schedule. I was essentially just as productive as I was full time.

Reality is for most creative jobs, there's a fraction of your work week where you're extremely productive. Everything else is just rounding out the admin work while your brain is mush.

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Re:We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon by hinkley on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @06:43PM (#31660911)

Nothing illustrates this quite like the task that is marked as 'half a week' and some manager doesn't understand why you can't do two of those in the same week.

Like, if a marathon only takes 6 hours then why can't you do a second one on Sunday? And if I harass you enough can you do another one on Saturday afternoon as well?

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