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Originally Posted by OldDutch
If you work at a plant I get you can’t cut down to 4 days, but at head offices why can’t you look at outcome based work for many roles?
If you have a project and finish your work earlier why not go home? What advantage is there to you sitting there to meet an hourly quota? Instead go home early, and if you have to work sometimes on a Saturday do it. As long as outcome is met.
My team has been doing this for years. We’re highly productive. I answer emails at 9PM sure, but some Fridays I leave early. Heck I encourage my people to take a break and play video games during the day to keep them sharp. They have phones with Teams I can call them if I or anyone need them. Key here is we trust each other to deliver.
This whole factory system of hourly work for knowledge based roles is antiquated and frankly unproductive.
Our enterprise will never officially sanction 4 days, but its already happening. As lead, I am not watching anyone, your results speak for themselves. It also amazing how uncommon that is.
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But even most field work can benefit from this as well, I've never worked in an office environment but we did 4 day weeks just fine, you just have other shifts cover each other. If you need 7 day coverage you have either two 4 day shifts with an overlap day, or a 4 day shift and a 3 day shift. I've done both and it works very well. If you only need weekdays then you stagger some people Mon-Thur and Tues-Fri
I agree with everything else you said, just wanted to clarify that 4 days works fine for the field too. Off the top of my head I can't think of many situations where a 4 day schedule wouldn't work better than a 5 day schedule, jobs where travel is involved/out of town work being the only exception off the top of my head