It’s amazing how businesses want to run on data, but when presented with the successfulness of a 4-day work week, that’s not the data they want
@jilleduffy Consistently across every business I've ever worked with or for, a main metric is "how many hours will/did your work take?" Rather than "Can/did you achieve outcome X in the timeframe?"
It's a subtle distinction, but the one that allows for breaking the link between a factory style timesheet management, and one that understands people need physical and mental space in order to get stuff done.
Of course, this doesn't help if you work in a factory.

@toychicken So, a few years ago I wrote this article that was based on studies of factory workers during WWI.

We see many of the same outcomes: Putting in more hours does not result in higher output, after a threshold is hit https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190912-what-wartime-munitionettes-can-teach-us-about-burnout

What wartime ‘munitionettes’ can teach us about burnout

A short overtime sprint won't kill you but, as data from World War One shows, consistently putting in too many hours at work hurts employees and employers.

BBC
@jilleduffy That's really interesting, not one that I'd come across before, thanks! There's a pretty good potted history of the 8-hour work ~week~ day on Wikipedia, and I bet @workingclasshistory would have some good detail on this 😃
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
Eight-hour day - Wikipedia