Employees at L'Oréal get concierge service, a vegetable garden and other perks as some bosses pull out the stops to get workers back to the office
said. They reported that revenue rose over the course of the trial, sick days and absenteeism were down, and resignations fell slightly. Arney removed Fridays from the company workweek without reducing salaries early this year after he lost a designer to a firm that offered the employee a 50% raise. The company’s digital design business lends itself to remote work and flexible hours, he said, and it no longer has a physical office. Employees also get unlimited paid time off.
“What if I’m the only company that does this when my competitors don’t?” he said. That could create a competitive disadvantage when most people live in the 40-hour world and expect to do business all week. How would customers respond, for instance, to learn the service desk they want to contact is closed on Fridays?
“We give people 52 days back a year and maybe on six of those Fridays [employees] put in 45 minutes to help with a quick emergency.”
It should be 4 ten hour days
Long overdue
There, I fixed it.
As disruptions to standard workplace practices caused by bad public policy continue to ripple through the economy, some companies are adopting 32-hour workweeks at formerly 40-hour pay that effectively make every Friday a paid holiday.