My team might be thinking about telling me they want to work a 4 day week. My message to them? Don’t.
On LinkedIn, the conversation about binning off the fifth day of work is boring, but here’s my two pence of wisdom anyway.
If one of Everyday Agile's associates has 40 hours in the pot to burn through each week, I don’t care how they do it.
Wake up on a Monday feeling like God’s gift to consultancy, neck twelve cups of coffee, put in fifteen hours solid graft, re-grout the bathroom, and give every client the schmoozing of the century. Lovely stuff.
Then by Wednesday, if you’ve had one too many sherbets the night before, spend most of the day face-planting your keyboard, and only manage a brief checkup with each of your clients, that’s alright too.
As long as they’re happy, I’m good with that.
Productivity is different for all of us. Five days, four days, three days, we’re all fuelled in different ways.
So instead of the LinkedIn gimps turning everything into some massive trend, let your team lead the way on how they want to manage their time. Because surprisingly, they might not all need the same thing.
On LinkedIn, the conversation about binning off the fifth day of work is boring, but here’s my two pence of wisdom anyway.
If one of Everyday Agile's associates has 40 hours in the pot to burn through each week, I don’t care how they do it.
Wake up on a Monday feeling like God’s gift to consultancy, neck twelve cups of coffee, put in fifteen hours solid graft, re-grout the bathroom, and give every client the schmoozing of the century. Lovely stuff.
Then by Wednesday, if you’ve had one too many sherbets the night before, spend most of the day face-planting your keyboard, and only manage a brief checkup with each of your clients, that’s alright too.
As long as they’re happy, I’m good with that.
Productivity is different for all of us. Five days, four days, three days, we’re all fuelled in different ways.
So instead of the LinkedIn gimps turning everything into some massive trend, let your team lead the way on how they want to manage their time. Because surprisingly, they might not all need the same thing.
