4-day workweek study: greater happiness, no loss in productivity

gobucks0409 said:
Oh. I believed Japan is actually looking into it, though. Would be surprising to see it happen, but the fact that they would think about it has some significance
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yeah, very significant
 
outofyourmind said:
Did I strike a nerve with that one.
Maybe get to work and stop stealing time from your employer
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lol

I'm not stealing anything from my employer
 
ThePeoplesChicken said:
Interesting read OP

I think there is a lot of compelling research out there that suggests keeping workers fresh or incorporating wellness practices increases productivity and workforce culture. Unfortunately the United States doesn't accept these practices very widely.
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I’ve been trying to reduce 30 minute meetings to 25 and hour-long meeting to 50 minutes for the last year, and it’s been like pulling teeth to get these turds to comply. I can’t imagine how badly they’ll freak if they get a whole day of meetings taken away from them!
 
outofyourmind said:
Did I strike a nerve with that one.
Maybe get to work and stop stealing time from your employer
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If he's not producing, his employer is free to find someone to replace him.
 
moxie said:
I’ve been trying to reduce 30 minute meetings to 25 and hour-long meeting to 50 minutes for the last year, and it’s been like pulling teeth to get these turds to comply. I can’t imagine how badly they’ll freak if they get a whole day of meetings taken away from them!
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My meetings rarely last the time allotted. Go over the topic, questions, summarize, dismiss.
 
gobucks0409 said:
My meetings rarely last the time allotted. Go over the topic, questions, summarize, dismiss.
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I have been changing hour meetings to 45 mins...it helps
 
gobucks0409 said:
Our office in the UK has been 35 hours since I started 11 years ago (five days a week, though).

If Japan ends up going 4 days, that would be fairly significant
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Japan is definitely a trend setter on that stuff

They seem to be the only normal country that works more than us
 
gobucks0409 said:
My meetings rarely last the time allotted. Go over the topic, questions, summarize, dismiss.
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i envy you. my meetings always go to at least the allotted time limit, and usually past it, because morons can't help themselves but to keep it going with questions that they could easily address via email AFTER the meeting, many of which are specific to their customers, so the whole group doesn't really need to be concerned with them. nothing i hate more than sales meetings.
 
ojb81 said:
i envy you. my meetings always go to at least the allotted time limit, and usually past it, because morons can't help themselves but to keep it going with questions that they could easily address via email AFTER the meeting, many of which are specific to their customers, so the whole group doesn't really need to be concerned with them. nothing i hate more than sales meetings.
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Sales people are the reason why any meetings last longer than they should. Because most of them don't actually know anything about the product they are selling.
 
gobucks0409 said:
Sales people are the reason why any meetings last longer than they should. Because most of them don't actually know anything about the product they are selling.
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well, in my case, it's really not a matter of lack of knowledge on the product, it's usually administrative bullshit that can easily be handled after the meeting with their respective managers.
 
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gobucks0409 said:
My meetings rarely last the time allotted. Go over the topic, questions, summarize, dismiss.
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That sucks. We pretty much schedule them back to back, all day long. In regular times, people were a little bit better about being cognizant of the fact that someone had to move to a different room/floor for their next one, but when we all started working from home, the stacked meetings got worse. And early/late ones became more of the norm. But for us, a couple minutes over can waterfall and ruin the day, so I put the cushion in for bio breaks, overages and time to dial into your next one. It’s ridiculous. I guess the 5/10 thing comes from a Harvard or Stanford business classes or someshit and people are good with it for a few months, then they start backsliding into old habits.
 
gobucks0409 said:
Oh. I believed Japan is actually looking into it, though. Would be surprising to see it happen, but the fact that they would think about it has some significance
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So they can hurry up and go home to their closet sized apartments?
 
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I have no doubt this is accurate. It’s base logic to me.

Of course, we had many studies how working from home was at least as productive as the office, if not more, and it took a pandemic for our overlords to see that we don’t just sit home and watch TV all day.

I’m sure those same overlords will continue to be rigid on four day work weeks until a virus that only impacts people who work five day work weeks slips out of a Chinese lab.
 
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I've gone to almost a 3 and a half night week.

Three 12 hour shifts.

One 6 hour shift.

When I was in my 40s, it was normal for me (by my own choice) to work 13 nights in two weeks.

I'm six months away from 55.

I'm too old for that shit now.
 
I pretty much only put in about 10 hours of actual work in per week. The rest is just cluttered with meetings and replying to emails.

I'm on a conference call right now and have only said about 6 words over the last 1/2 hour.
 
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