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 leonidasv on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:28PM (#31865019)

> based on the 100:80:100 model — 100 % of pay for 80% of the time, with a commitment to maintain 100% productivity

Does anyone know how the baseline "productivity" will be measured?

And what happens to workers that do not meet the productivity? Do they go back to the 5-day week?

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Re:Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer af... by notahacker on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:20PM (#31866030)

I suspect the adage about "a measure which becomes a target ceases to become a good measure" applies here

Part of the reason most workers work a set number of hours rather than negotiating piecework or payment delivered on achieving KPIs or set objectives, after all, is that organizations seldom have a concrete idea of what output they expect over a period of time. (And some of the objectives that are clearly defined and stable over time like "drive this bus route" or "answer calls during this period" actually collapse quite well into working hours)

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