Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer after study agreed

Re:Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer af... by scrivna on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:56AM (#31863105)

So we think staff will work 100% for 4 days? Presumably the lost 20% is making tea, chatting to coworkers about sports, checking personal messages, pooping etc, seems unlikely that behaviour would change and productivity get to 100%. So 100:80:64 would be my guess as the outcome, a loss for tax payers.

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Re:Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer af... by ben_w on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:53AM (#31864185)

The argument (and I’m not saying it is or isn’t backed by sufficient evidence because I don’t know) is that the lost 20% is because we are physiologically not capable of retaining mental focus for 8 hours a day for 5 days in a row. There is some evidence for an equivalent claim for physical labour, which is part of the reason we do 40 hour weeks rather than 70, though again I don’t know how good the evidence really is.

To put it another way, think of this as the mental equivalent to why we can’t run marathons at the pace we can do a 100m sprint.

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