Comment: Stop working and go home: Why long hours at the office don't pay off
In comedy series "The Office," a bumbling manager spends much of his time distracting the hapless employees of a paper company's local sales branch.
Now, confirming these results will take a more systematic experiment. Plenty of other factors could have contributed to the sales surge; in order to really determine whether cutting hours raises productivity, companies should try the program at some branches but not at others, and compare the two.But there are reasons to believe this was no fluke. A similar experiment at a New Zealand company in 2018 produced similar results.
The obvious solution is to tell employees to go home earlier. If workers are fatigued, this will give them more energy. If they're trying to look busy, this will free them from the need to keep up appearances. And if they have more actual work than they can do at the office, they can always do some at home.
Japan and the US are two countries that need this approach. Americans work longer hours than their counterparts in more productive North European countries, and have no federally mandated paid vacation days whatsoever.
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