In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the world to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate shorter weeks or reduced hours. Five years on, the results are indisputable. The Icelandic experiment began in…
Meanwhile, US companies are ending their temporary COVID-prompted telework “experiments” and threatening to fire employees who won’t return to the office. Because results mean nothing - we do it the way we do it because that’s how we do it.
Authoritarian culture begets authoritarian policy, in both the public and private sectors. Results were never the ends. Compliance and control are.
I hired you so you could worship at my feet, not to be productive at home, dammit.