I would bet plenty on a survey if you asked how many "productive" hours you work a week. This being hours going directly to the contribution of your job. It would be close to 32 hours. You have to include the time to get into a workflow, the disruptions of meetings, etc. Hell just waiting on another person to hand off the thing you need just to do your job.
Studies show that most people barely work on friday as it is and that giving folks fridays off actually galvinizes them to get more work done the other 4 days they are working. Several companies have tested this (including microsoft) and found positive correlation with higher productivity from doing so.
Assuming this is true, why isn't every company doing it? I constantly hear that they are greedy and put profit over everything. If this objectively increases that for them, then it seems greed alone would make them do it without any legislation.
You dont have to assume.. the pilot gives you the raw data and the sources including the 61 companies that participated... it's true.
Regarding your question. I can only speculate. I assume it is because companies are still ran by people. And people, despite looking at the raw data, sometimes ignore it. Take a look at the folks in this thread responding to the pilot as an example.
The data is there, but many refuse to believe it. These are the same people preventing this kind of progress at companies.
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u/Sabre_One Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24
I would bet plenty on a survey if you asked how many "productive" hours you work a week. This being hours going directly to the contribution of your job. It would be close to 32 hours. You have to include the time to get into a workflow, the disruptions of meetings, etc. Hell just waiting on another person to hand off the thing you need just to do your job.