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June 17, 2020 02:43 pm

Coronavirus Could Upend Traditional Workweeks

One of the pandemic's longer-term impacts on how we work could be the end of the five-day, 9-to-5 workweek. From a report: For many companies, these past few months have been a period of rapid experimentation -- and some are finding that shorter workdays and four-day weeks can work quite well. The gap between when the school day typically ends -- 3pm -- and when the workday ends -- 5 pm -- "is grossly unfair to working parents," Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at UPenn's Wharton School, writes in the Economist. "If more of us end up working remotely after the pandemic, there is one change that could make work better: ending the misalignment between the school day and the work day," he writes. Parents juggling work and child care while telecommuting are already bearing burdens their colleagues are not, and shortening the workday to 3pm would take away a great deal of stress.Grant notes: "Take it from someone who studies work for a living: we can be every bit as creative and productive in six focused hours a day as in twice as many distracted hours."

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