Why I’m Excited About Amazon’s 30-Hour Work Week Experiment
In practice, a 30-hour work week hardly ever works out well. The employee has “outed” themselves as a less-dedicated employee, and the politics of the workplace often mean that those working on a “reduced schedule” see their hours and expectations expand back to 40-50 hours or more. So, you have the downside of being stigmatized and getting less pay, but you wind up still doing your original amount of work. frustration mounts. Employees quit. When I heard about Amazon’s reduc