Wednesday, November 6, 2019

In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday, and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas; The New York Times, November 6, 2019

; In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday, and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas

Sick of round-the-clock work emails and Slack messages? Here’s some hope.

"This is why I am heartened to see stories like that of Mr. Rheingans’s short workday and, as was reported this week, Microsoft Japan’s experiments with a four-day week during the summer (which increased its productivity by 40 percent, according to the company). It’s not yet clear that these innovations are exactly the right way to run technology companies, or whether they can scale to other business contexts. But what is right in this case is the exploratory mind-set that led to these experiments in the first place. If like many digital knowledge workers, you’re exhausted by endless work and flooded inboxes, the good news is that better and more sustainable ways of producing valuable output with your brain might be coming — if we can find enough visionaries willing to try out “radical” new ideas about how best to get things done."

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