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Interesting "experiment"

Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago to Government

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So, if the same amount of work needs to happen, taking the same amount of man-hours, then they will need to hire 25% more people. Which will drive the costs of city government up by more than 25% (since government is inefficient).

SOURCE URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-to-trial-sixhour-public-sector-workday-9248009.html

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Posted by KahnQuest 11 years ago

We already know that work expands to fill the time allotted, so it will be interesting to see if it will work the same in the opposite direction. Common sense tells me it won't, but I wonder how much pressure will be put on the people with the six-hour days to make it succeed. I'm sure the government, despite denying it, has a vested interest in making sure it appears to work.

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  Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago
  
  This form of "process improvement" rarely works. I have been in the continuous/process improvement arena for about 20 years. Companies/organizations that use this approach thinking that they will force the workers to find innovative ways to accomplish the tasks merely end up with workers that are disgruntled or that use poor system processes to adapt (ex: they pass along the paperwork as incomplete which then just places it back in the work queue).
  
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