A New Zealand company tried a four-day work week. It was a 'resounding success'
money.cnn.com
Unbelievable sentences came into my eyesight.
The quote "employees became more productive, spending less time on social media or non-work activity. One employee even told the CEO that he stopped looking at emails from his wife about an ongoing apartment search during work hours."
Such activities are not allowed in most of the Japanese companies. Even if you are in a company where such activities are not explicitly banned, you'll be spoken ill of you behind you.
So, in Japan, you have to be careful about your behavior in your working hours.
But, specific people are exempted from such activities. Exectives or elderly employees won't be scolded, even if they spend time on non-work activities.
We have to create working environment where working hours are less than current ones and productivity is higher than current one, and especially, in Japan, unreasonable hidden priorities for elderly employees must be suspended.
