4-day working weeks - yay or nay?

Kat Warner

Here is an article about an Australian company that stopped employees coming into the office on Wednesday without a pay cut.

This relates to an Off Topic thread I posted recently that might have been better suited for the Job and Careers group.

Would Wednesdays off work suit you? What do you dislike or like about this idea?

 

Derek Fields _RightStar_

I'll jump in - I think that "creative" employees should be expected to complete the work, not put in the time. It is up to management to balance the amount of work that is expected against the long-term productivity of the staff so that they get an optimal output over an appropriate time horizon (which may measured in years, not weeks or quarters). For some people this may mean 5 8-hour structured days while others may be most productive working in chunks. In some cases, a worker must be available at certain times because of external forces, such as customer service. As long as targets are being met while maintaining the health of the staff, I don't think that there should be fixed hours or days.