“No Phones & No Talking”, Company Allows Staff to Work Only 5 Hours A Day With These Conditions

We’ve heard of many companies that tried the four-day work week to see if it increased productivity, and many of them showed positive results.

But instead of reducing the number of work days a week, this company decided to reduce the number of working hours every day!

Source: Vulcan Post

The company from Germany allows its employees to work ONLY five hours a day, provided that they give up their phones and keep small talk with their colleagues to a minimum.

Additionally, they can only check their emails twice a day while meetings are limited to 15 minutes or shorter.

According to Business Insider, the chief officer of the Bielefeld-based consulting firm, Rheingans Digital Enabler, said he implemented a shorter workday so that he could spend more time with his children. 

But in order for his company to run at the same efficiency in a smaller time frame, he requires them to put away their phones to ensure they are completely focused on their work.

Source: European Business

We don’t know if this new implementation actually increased work efficiency among the employees, but I’m sure they’d take a five-hour work day without their phones over prolonged hours at the office anytime.

Which would you pick? Five hours of work a day with no phone, or nine or more hours of work a day with your phone?