A lot of companies are toying with shorter work schedule, but not enough is being done to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Read on.
It may be a little early to do that. I’m trying to hasten the arrival of that day, but I don’t wanna mess it up by having it arrive prematurely. We still have more to learn before we can scale this up to entire economies. I think that we are going to see in the next few years some experiments at the state level in the United States, for example.We know less about the failures than we would like, because we have had a pretty self-selecting group.
In other cases, it’s more about culture than performance. For example, there was a video production company in Hong Kong that was trialling a four-day week and they let everybody choose a day off. You had teams out on location and other folks out pitching clients, so the office turned into a ghost town.
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