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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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This unfortunately doesn’t really work for any business that bills hourly, such as engineering consultants and lawyers.