Asda is abandoning plans to introduce a four-day working week after complaints from exhausted staff exposed a crucial misstep in the successful implementation of reduced working patterns. The supermarket chain launched a trial to have employees work their 44-hour week over four days instead of five for the same pay. That translated into 11-hour shift … Read more
Organizations must create attractive and welcoming workplaces to encourage employees to … [+] back to the office. getty Consultants and management gurus are prone to exaggerating what they call “paradigm shifts,” but it’s hard to argue with the central premise of Julia Hobsbawm’s new book: Working assumptions.The scale of disruption we are experiencing has not … Read more
With slow productivity growth of around 1.4% despite groundbreaking advances in technology and innovation, increasing growth – and average household income – may depend on a simple equation. “I have my number of employees and my output per employee,” explains Kweilin Ellingrud, director of the McKinsey Global Institute. “Either I change the number of employees, … Read more