Experiments with a shorter workweek have shown that working fewer hours improves worker well-being and productivity. But we can’t expect employers to implement this transformative change of their own volition.

Experiments with a shorter workweek have shown that shown that working fewer hours improves worker well-being and productivity. But we can’t expect employers to implement this transformative change of their own volition.

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
    16·
    3 days ago

    There are people in the workforce that put in loads of hours to show up, but get nothing done, or at least very little, but they look busy and reliable. Then there are people who work smarter, get the tasks done and look like they slack off because they can manage proper minutes of downtime here and there

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      2·
      1 day ago

      Worse are the ones who are adept at dumping all the work onto others. Lateral delegation. “Someone’s gotta do it, and it ain’t going to be me.” It’s really fun finding those net-negative producers and throwing them out into the street. They’re destructive of morale as well as being leeches.

      And I hate the firefighter-arsonists even more. Those mostly appear in senior tech roles and middle-to-upper management. Fire prevention is much more worthwhile, but less dramatic, so the people you really need don’t always get the credit they deserve.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      “Why aren’t you as stressed about this deadline as I am?”

      “Because I’m actually good at my job, bud.”