Half-Past Four Is the New Five O'Clock in More Efficient Workday (bloomberg.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/11/166203/half-past-four-is-the-new-five-oclock-in-more-efficient-workday
- Source link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-11/half-past-four-is-the-new-five-o-clock-in-more-efficient-workday
> The average American workday [1]now concludes at 4:39 p.m. , a notable 36 minutes earlier than it did just two years ago when the clock-out time hovered around 5:21 p.m, according to the latest data from the workforce analytics and productivity software company ActivTrak.
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> The new report tracked the workplace behaviors of over 200,000 employees across 777 companies. Despite the shorter workday, the data suggests that overall productivity has increased by about 2%. Per ActivTrak, employees now engage in focused, 24-minute spurts of productivity.
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> "I hope to see these numbers remain consistent year-over-year when it comes to workday span and productivity," said Gabriela Mauch, the head of ActivTrak's Productivity Lab. "These are healthy numbers. We've adapted to a traditional workday on average, while offering flexibility and fluidity in a way that meets employees where they are." Seasonal fluctuations are another notable factor, the report found. Workers tend to put in longer hours during August and December. The August increase aligns with employees returning from vacation and starting to scramble to meet end-of-year goals, Mauch said. It may be that organizations also see the month of December as another chance to catch up, she added.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-11/half-past-four-is-the-new-five-o-clock-in-more-efficient-workday
Productivity increased 2%? Really? (Score:2)
Is there a such thing as a margin of error for a productivity software company? Maybe a few people just hit "reply all" on accident to a company email
When's clock-in? (Score:2)
Personally over the last three years my (unofficial) start time has become an hour earlier, and my (official) end-of-day is a half-hour earlier.
Sometimes I duck out before official EoD, but my work-day is always longer than it used to be, and always longer than it's required to be. I enjoy more productivity early in the morning before everyone else comes in and starts asking questions.
More efficient my ass (Score:2)
Its because people are fucking off early because they realize nobody will notice.
Re: (Score:1)
We run 24/7 and when they die substitute the next in line. Saves on food and other luxuries. Lots of spares when it comes to slave labor, eh?
Bad Math? (Score:2)
By my math, 4:39 is 42 minutes earlier that 5:21.
Productivity is different... (Score:2)
I would say it can be a different story to compare someone's job from 2010 to a job now. Mainly because even there have not been any real major additions, there has been a lot of automation to speed up things. For example, an accountant is likely having a different workflow now than they did a few years ago when everything was manually entered into Peachtree. Similar when development used Visual Sourcesafe versus Git pull requests.
Given the same unit of time, the amount of work done has increased for the
4:20 pm (Score:2)
4:20 PM. That's the unofficial end of the workday these days.