A closer look
Forcing employees to sit at a desk for forty hours is objectively terrible for the bottom line. When Microsoft Japan experimented with a strict four-day workweek without cutting pay, they didn't just boost morale—sales per employee skyrocketed by forty percent. By ruthlessly capping meetings at thirty minutes and cutting the useless corporate busywork that fills a standard five-day schedule, economists found that time scarcity actually forces a brutal, highly profitable efficiency.
