WOULD THREE-DAY WEEKENDS INCREASE WORK PRODUCTIVITY?

Kurupati Chitrakala

Microsoft has found that three-day weekends increase employee productivity by 40%. The computing company’s Japanese arm gave 2,300 members of its staff every Friday off for a month’s trial. Although employees spent 20% less time in the workplace, they were 39.9% more productive. And that’s not all. Absence also went down by more than a quarter (25.4%) and the use of electricity went down by 23.1%.

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  1. 05/30/2021

    WOULD THREE-DAY WEEKENDS INCREASE WORK PRODUCTIVITY?

    Microsoft has found that three-day weekends increase employee productivity by 40%. The computing company’s Japanese arm gave 2,300 members of its staff every Friday off for a month’s trial. Although employees spent 20% less time in the workplace, they were 39.9% more productive. And that’s not all. Absence also went down by more than a quarter (25.4%) and the use of electricity went down by 23.1%.

    WOULD THREE-DAY WEEKENDS INCREASE WORK PRODUCTIVITY?
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Microsoft has found that three-day weekends increase employee productivity by 40%. The computing company’s Japanese arm gave 2,300 members of its staff every Friday off for a month’s trial. Although employees spent 20% less time in the workplace, they were 39.9% more productive. And that’s not all. Absence also went down by more than a quarter (25.4%) and the use of electricity went down by 23.1%.

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