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#Microsoft work life balance trial

The Microsoft trial roughly doubled Perpetual Guardian's productivity gain. Last October, the company made the policy permanent.

A sampling of comments from the Asian news site Sora News 24 ranges from "Here's to hoping my boss reads about this" to "So I guess me feeling like I'm ready to be done for the week by Wednesday is pretty natural."įour-day workweeks made headlines around the world in the spring of 2018, when Perpetual Guardian, a New Zealand trust management company, announced a 20% gain in employee productivity and a 45% increase in employee work-life balance after a trial of paying people their regular salary for working four days. The news prompted excitement among many workers in Japan. In a blog post announcing the plan in July, Microsoft Japan said there was often no reason for meetings to run an hour, or to tie up multiple people from the same team.Ĭiting the need for a shift in time management, the Microsoft division also urged people to use collaborative chat channels rather than "wasteful" emails and meetings. In a related cut, standard attendance at those sessions was capped at five employees.

The standard duration for a meeting was slashed from 60 minutes to 30 - an approach that was adopted for nearly half of all meetings. Encouraged by the results, it plans to hold a similar trial in the winter.īecause of the shorter workweek, the company also put its meetings on a diet. And as its workers took five Fridays off in August, they printed nearly 60 percent fewer pages.Īll of the employees who took Fridays off were given special paid leave, the company says. Microsoft Japan says it became more efficient in several areas, including lower electricity costs, which fell by 23%. The result, the company says, was a productivity boost of 40%. Workers at Microsoft Japan enjoyed an enviable perk this summer: working four days a week, enjoying a three-day weekend - and getting their normal, five-day paycheck. Microsoft's division in Japan says it saw productivity grow by 40% after allowing employees to work for four days a week rather than five. A sales clerk speaks with a customer in front of Microsoft Corp.'s display at an electronics store in Tokyo.