Description
| Product ID: | 9780241406786 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Shorter |
| Subtitle: | How smart companies work less, embrace flexibility and boost productivity |
| Authors: | Author: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Social and ethical issues, Social interaction, Social forecasting, future studies, Occupational and industrial psychology, Business strategy, Working patterns and practices, Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides, Social forecasting, future studies, Occupational & industrial psychology, Business strategy, Working patterns & practices, Digital lifestyle |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Forget the old concept of the 9-5. In a changing world, companies around the globe are redesigning the working week to increase efficiency, health, productivity and happiness in their employees. Now you can do the same. A growing number of businesses are shortening their working weeks to address problems with low productivity, poor mental health and unequal working opportunities. Workers are still paid the same salary for a four-day week and the results are revolutionary; so much so that a pilot scheme has recently launched in the UK, based on this model. In Shorter, bestselling author of Rest Alex Pang studies these trailblazing businesses working fewer hours, where managers are reporting their teams to be:- More creative in their problem solving- Happier and with lower stress and anxiety and cases of burn out- More productive Pang will reveal step by step how they have gone about making these changes, the challenges and solutions and, most importantly, how you can do the same. Forget the old concept of the 9-5. In a changing world, companies around the globe are redesigning the working week to increase efficiency, health, productivity and happiness in their employees. Now you can do the same. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Business |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-03-05 |
