4-day workweek boosted workers' productivity by 40%, Microsoft Japan says
There is something strange going on with the numbers in the article. People worked 20% less, but electricity costs fell by 23% and the "number of printed pages" fell by 60%?<p>Scrolling through the Google Translated version of the original Japanese article, it seems a bunch of other changes were implemented at the same time, including more remote meetings, pushing text chat over meetings, and paying back more expenses. Also the number of printed pages just followed a trend that had been going on for several years, and the electricity usage was also already decreasing [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://news.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/47/2019/10/2019_summer_1107.png" rel="nofollow">https://news.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/47/...</a>