@StephSmith brings up an interesting point: the forty hour work week was implemented nearly a hundred years ago.
Technology has since allowed us to automate and increase our speed in achieving outcomes for many things, yet we still cling on to the 40 hour work week without much thought of why.
The archaic metric of “hours in the office” need to be re-considered as it’s not an indicative performance indicator of how effective people are.
We’ve seen during this pandemic and the shift to work-from-home that managers need to change the way we evaluate workers to more outcome-based metrics instead of hours worked or monitoring presence in the office (which doesn’t really tell you if someone is productive or not).
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