Comment on In 2019, Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40%
cheddar@programming.dev 5 weeks agoTo shut down what? By design, that was a short trial:
The company introduced a program this summer in Japan called the “Work Life Choice Challenge,” which shut down its offices every Friday in August and gave all employees an extra day off each week.
And like any short trial, it doesn’t answer the question whether the increased productivity would stay over longer periods of time. Other trials suggest that it wouldn’t.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Even if productivity turns out to be the same, the 4-day work week would be better.
cheddar@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I fully agree. But I don’t like misleading posts like this one implying that a 4-day work week would lead to better productivity. That’s called confirmation bias. We (workers) won’t achieve anything by spreading lies like that.