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Originally Posted by Pierre
There is evidence that backs that up...................initially but a 4 day week has not been monitored for a great length of time.
Even in the shortish studies that been done Productivity does go up at the start, due to the excitement of the change and the need to get the same amount of work, and more, done in a shorter time frame. But as the novelty wears off and the 4 days become the norm, there is evidence that productivity falls.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...-cut-in-output
Some sectors may not be able to participate, or certainly there would be challenges, in the public sector of policing, NHS etc, as costs would rise as more would have to be employed, and the retail sector may struggle. |
Any increase in profits from that example would have been from extra business coming their way. That would've occurred regardless of the hours worked.
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Productivity increased in the four days they worked so there was no drop in the total amount of work done, a study of the trial released on Tuesday has revealed.
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Doesn't mean a thing, if they were previously spending the slack time "twiddling their thumbs". The workload wasn't there to fill all of the time before. As they get more business, that will no longer be the case. Before they could fill that slack time with no increase in costs. That would give more profits and the potential for increased wages. As it is, they will instead have to employ more people who will then also have slack time.