Four-day working week may improve productivity
A List Apart is a web design weblog to which I subscribe (and read occasionally). Normally the topics deal with web design (i.e. how to design a good, standards-compliant web page), or web design project management (i.e. how to deal with clients).
So I’m more than a little curious to see this particular article about productivity improvements with a four-day working week. A few quotes, and you’ll get the idea:
There will always be more to do. Working more won’t change that. In fact, working more is actually counter-productive. […] The problem wasn’t a time issue, it was a mental issue. I knew I had a whole week to finish my work, so I spread it out over five (or seven!) days. If I knew I only had four days to finish a whole week of work, it would’ve motivated me to get things done more efficiently.
Working efficiently increases productivity.
Now if we can all do that.
Oooh, what CMS is that site using?
They use a custom-built CMS based on Ruby on Rails.
See this article.