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915 When Microsoft’s Japan branch gave all 2,300 staff five Fridays off in a row on full pay in the summer of 2019 — while capping meetings at 30 minutes — it recorded a 40 per cent jump in productivity per employee, alongside sharp falls in electricity used and paper printed.

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Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 06/03/2026 05:27 EDT

When Microsoft’s Japan branch gave all 2,300 staff five Fridays off in a row on full pay in the summer of 2019 — while capping meetings at 30 minutes — it recorded a 40 per cent jump in productivity per employee, alongside sharp falls in electricity used and paper printed.

The Microsoft Japan story usually gets told as a magic trick. Give everyone Friday off, keep their full pay, and somehow more work gets done, not less. The lesson many people pull from it is the convenient one: just work less and you’ll produce more. I’ve wanted that to be true for years, which is ... Read more

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