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The four day workweek is another example. Productivity is kept, but worker wellness goes way up. Yet no one offers it because it has nothing to do with metrics.
Edit: Four day workweek, not four hour workweek. I wish.
Four hours? That would be amazing.
Ha. My mistake. But we can dream.
I wonder if it's because it seems like it would be so wonderful, with very few downsides - it feels like we shouldn't do it. Like, no we couldn't possibly dare to have nice things. But the pandemy showed us that we could dare to make radical changes, and that they could just be undeniably better in every way.
But there's not going to be a pandemic to push this one through for us, so we've got to exert our own pressure from the bottom up. I know of at least four people personally who insist on four day work weeks now, two of them developers. If hiring managers just keep hearing "four day work week" as a requirement, and they start losing applicants because they don't have their act together, you'll start to see the change.
Part of the issue is that the current tech market has hiring managers with all the power. Once that flips back, I hope to see this as a common recruitment tactic.