The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100
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Re: The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100
#2Basically every study shows a four day week works best. The issue is why we never go with what the study shows.
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#3Papers like this should be called opinion surveys.
Calling it a study is a disservice to science. As Feynman said, anything where they have to put science as a suffix is usually not science.
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#4I remember one business class anecdote, where the conclusion of changing workplace conditions (light, music, etc. both ways) was that productivity studies increase productivity ...
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#5Won’t we face an economic decline if we continue reducing the work week even further?
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#6I remember one business class anecdote, where the conclusion of changing workplace conditions (light, music, etc. both ways) was that productivity studies increase productivity ...
Only if you do bad science experiments without a control group, otherwise you'd see the control group productivity boost as they'd also be under the same scrutiny. I didn't read the study methodology, so I'm not comparing to that, only responding to your comment in isolation.
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#7Basically every study shows a four day week works best. The issue is why we never go with what the study shows.
Because if we did we’d have universal healthcare, 4 day work weeks, WFH where possible, walkable cities, and a lot more housing, and every single one of those things makes it harder for abusive jobs to control their employees.
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#8I remember one business class anecdote, where the conclusion of changing workplace conditions (light, music, etc. both ways) was that productivity studies increase productivity ...
It's Hawthorne effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Related to it we have novelty effect and bunch of other psychological effects that are hard to isolate in human science. In this sector, a lot of studies cannot be repeated.
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#9But how will a consulting company bill for the 20%?
Re: The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100
#10Basically every study shows a four day week works best. The issue is why we never go with what the study shows.
By inductive logic, a zero day week works best.