Debates over the length of the workweek are nothing new. In 1926, the Ford Motor Company standardised the Monday-to-Friday pattern; beforehand, the common practice was a six-day workweek, with only Sundays off.Henry Ford’s theory was that [working] five days, with the same pay, would increase worker productivity, in that people would put more effort into the shorter workweek,” says Jim Harter, chief scientist for workplace management and wellbeing at US analytics firm Gallup, based in Nebraska.. The theory was largely proven correct: in the decades since, the five-day workweek is been commin

How the four-day week evolved 

By the 1950s, however, there were calls from labour unions to introduce a four-day week. “People began projecting, if we take out another workday, it’d be even better,” says Harter. But take-up of the four-day workweek has remained slow: by March 2020, a Gallup study of more than 10,000 US full-time employees showed only 5% worked a shorter week.  L

There are different four-day workweek models: from cutting one workday, reducing working hours and being paid the same wage; to intense working hours, where five days’ worth of work is crammed into four longer shifts. The former set-up is generally the goal; achieved by a combination of the introduction of new tools and operating practices that boost efficiency and result in a rise in worker wellbeing that fuels productivity.

Some workers may resist having a compressed workweek, with potentially longer hours and fewer breaks, imposed on them by an employer. Others may already be working at full tilt, meaning a shorter workweek could make their workload less manageable. “There are some employees who’ll end up trying to cram more work into four days where they previously had greater flexibility to work across five days,” says Harter. “If you get to Thursday afternoon, still haven't finished your work and everyone else has gone home, that can create stress and resentment.”

How five days’ work goes into four 

A shorter workweek is being hailed as the future of employee productivity and work-life balance. Is it that easy to make work better?

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Remote Work

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Corporate Culture

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Time Management

The realities of the four-day workweek

Why we always seek for motivation , is it really necessary ?

Lets Think Together ...

For the first time you always seeks motivation for doing a task , but this doesn't help you in the second time . It is not necessary that every time you feel motivated .

A Simple Trick ...

Motivation comes and goes. If you want to do something consistently, then don't pick a level of difficulty that requires great motivation.Start from a lower level of difficulty and then in steps move to the higher ones , this will increase your productivity and your grip on the task and make it simple for you ...

Start Making Steps ..

Make your work easy enough and simple enough that you'll do it even when you don't feel very motivated...

The Bottom Line 

Motivation , we all know this thing , but what we don't is that , the biggest source of motivation is only you. So don't seek outside , see inside of yourself and you will get your answer  ...

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Productivity

Making work simple , instead of finding Motivation ..

Do What You Love Or Love What You Do.

Saving Only Will Never Make You Rich, Invest.

Feel Proud Of Your Own Decision.

If Taken The Decision Stick On It.

Enjoy & Celebrate Even The Tiniest Achievement.

You Are Worth It

Face Everything With A Smile On Your Face.

Never Judge A Person.

State Of Patience Is The Toughest Thing.

Make Best Use Of The Things You Already Have.

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Philosophy

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Money & Investments

10 Lessons From a teen to a teen 

Finland with a population of 5.5 million has been named the happiest country in the world for four years running by the World's Happiest report.It is not the richest country in the world. Nor it is the most powerful or biggest. But it offers something that no other country is offering

Finland - World's Happiest Country

The report is based on the GDP, life expectancy, social support, freedom, corruption, emotions, and income level of people.<ol><li>Low corruption offers many welfare benefits and individual autonomy. </li></ol>

Welfare Benefits

2. This is a safe country with an excellent judiciary system and good governance.3. Equal society work culture modelled by other countries4. Employees are treated with respect and are involved in decision-making.

Equal Society

5. This results in greater productivity and overall satisfaction.6. Some companies are flexible with the option to choose working days and hours.7. All school fees are paid in taxation by parents. No extra for studies or food thereafter.

Free education

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

What makes Finland - The World's Happiest Country

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Most of us would prefer to think long-term about our careers, rather than just veering randomly to snag perceived opportunities and avoid pitfalls. But how can you adopt a strategic lens when you might not be entirely sure where you want to end up? Four strategies:<ul><li>Start by figuring out what you don’t want. </li><li>Pick one direction as your “provisional hypothesis” for where you want your career to go.</li><li>Double down on foundational skills and knowledge that will make you better, no matter what direction you ultimately decide to pursue. </li><li>Take stock of your emotional and mental energy. </li></ul>

Your Long Term Career Progress: Key Takeaways

One of the most important elements in thinking strategically about your career is understanding that our lives operate in cycles — or “thinking in waves” — and we have to recognize where we are in that process.

Thinking In Waves

Get clear on what you don’t want, and then take steps to avoid that. It’s much easier to identify things you know you dislike, rather than ideating about a hypothetical future.For instance, you might decide you never want to work for a micromanaging boss again, or you’re done with your current industry, or you no longer want to work hands-on and only want to take on advisory roles. Those are extremely useful pieces of data pointing towards what you do want By asking: How can I make sure I avoid these things in the future?, you can follow the resultant path that unfolds.

Decide What You Don’t Want

We all know it’s impossible to do everything at once. And yet it’s hard to resist the lure of <a href="https://hbr.org/2020/01/dont-bog-yourself-down-with-too-many-goals">too many goals</a>. Instead, we need to get disciplined and narrow down our focus. Think about how you can narrow down your options (by focusing on what you don’t want) and then pick one direction as your “provisional hypothesis” for where you want your career to go. You can always change your mind later, but you’ve made an informed choice and will be strategically working toward a plausible goal.

Develop Provisional Hypotheses

focus on the professional equivalent of basic research and double down on foundational skills and knowledge that will make you better, no matter what direction you ultimately decide to pursue. Learning to code in a particular computer language may not be helpful if you decide to leave engineering — but becoming a better public speaker or honing your time management skills are likely to be useful in almost any profession.

Make Progress on The Basics

You may have been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html">languishing</a> during the pandemic, but now feel ready to shake off the torpor and dive into new projects with zeal. Or you may have spent the past two years working at the outer edges of your limits, just trying to keep everything together. If that’s the case, this probably isn’t the moment to go all in at work. Instead, you may need to <a href="https://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time">manage your energy</a> and recognize that the best thing you can do for your long-term career success is to take a well-deserved break.

Take Stock of Your Emotional and Mental Energy

Short-term pressures always intrude on our long-term career planning, and that’s especially true when we’ve been through a collective period of crisis. Even if we’re not entirely sure where we want to end up, by following these strategies, we can ensure we’re taking the right steps to move away from what isn’t working for us, and toward a future that seems more hopeful.

The Bottom Line

Even when you aren’t entirely sure where you want to end up.

How to Make Progress on Your Long-Term Career Goals

In a post-pandemic landscape, the corporate world has begun to evolve significantly. With 66% of 22-56-year-olds now working at home at least once a week, digitalization has taken center stage within the business world as technology continues to transform the WFH potential.In fact, 38% of WFH-based companies are planning to implement at least one new form of smart technology into their workplace in 2022 alone, as a remote future becomes a certain reality.

A Remote Future

Augmented reality, otherwise known as AR is a form of immersive technology that is able to enhance your reality. Unlike virtual reality which is able to create a new 3D dimension with the help of VR hardware, AR simply adds digital layers onto what you already see.Using a series of digital layers, AR and VR users are able to enhance their remote working experience. From attending virtual meetings from the comfort of your couch to displaying large amounts of data in front of your eyes, experts suggest that immersive tools could be the key to company success in the digital age.

Augmented Reality

How can immersive technology boost success? The key here is business efficiency. Not only can AR/VR-based tools speed up onboarding and training processes for newcomers, but they also reduce the workload for the other staff members who would struggle to train new employees in a remote setting.Immersive aids do exactly what they say on the tin. They immerse you within your work. Seeing data in real-time and embracing training sessions in a completely virtual immersive setting enables employees to connect to what they are doing and is proved to increase task focus.

The Future of Virtual Onboarding 

One of the main areas of the corporate sector that is set for reform is staff training. As remote onboarding becomes a challenge of the past, immersive training tools are aiding business leaders to onboard staff with minimal effort and maximum success.Utilizing the immersive benefits of AR and VR-based technology, new employees will experience a realistic training practice, where they will be able to interact with mock virtual activities and gain a hands-on onboarding session, accelerating their learning process.

Benefits of Immersive Training Tools

Immersive aids can also significantly <a href="https://theappsolutions.com/blog/development/ar-benefits-for-business/?ref=hackernoon.com">reduce company costs</a> and provide a hefty ROI. From reducing staff assistance to automating a large portion of the company workload, the business’ production value can still remain high, while staff costs remain low, a perfect story for digital success.

Reducing Costs

The evolution of immersive aids, powered by augmented and virtual reality are set to revolutionize the future of WFH.

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Technology & The Future

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Product & Design

Virtual Onboarding: Will Immersive AR/VR Tools Replace In-person Training?

This applies to scenarios where you did something and then regretted it. Try to undo it.for example,you said something mean-spirited to your significant other. Well, then it’s the perfect opportunity to “undo” your hurtful action with a sincere apology.

Step 1 - Undo The Regret

There are many scenarios where undoing simply isn’t possible. This leads to step 2.AtleastAnalyze your regrets with a changed perspective can breed appreciation: giving objectively bad experiences a newfound purpose and making life more meaningful in the moment. Eg, You regret might attending school, but at least you wound up meeting your spouse there.

Step 2 - Atleast

During this step, you should ask yourself: What lessons can I learn from my regret? And strategize ways to mobilize the regret for better future outcomes.

Step 3 - Analyse And Strategize 

How should we go about healthily investing in regret? Turns out, there’s a handy three-step process for doing exactly that. Let’s take a look

‘No regrets.’ You’ve heard people proclaim it as a philosophy of life. That’s nonsense, even dangerous, says Daniel H. Pink in his latest bold and inspiring work. Everybody has regrets. They’re a fundamental part of our lives. And if we reckon with them in fresh and imaginative ways, we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose. In The Power of Regret, Pink draws on research in psychology, neuroscience, economics and biology to challenge widely-held assumptions about emotions and behaviour. Using the largest sampling of attitudes about regret ever conducted from his own World Regret Survey – which has collected regrets from more than 16,000 people in 105 countries – he identifies the four core regrets that most people have. These four regrets, Pink argues, operate as a ‘photographic negative’ of the good life. By understanding what people regret the most, we can understand what they value the most. And by following the simple, science-based, three-step process that he sets out, we can transform our regrets in a positive force for working smarter and living better. With Pink’s signature blend of big ideas and practical takeaways, captivating stories and crisp humour, The Power of Regret offers an urgent and indispensable guide for a life well-lived.

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Strategy

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Books

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022: BUSINESS A DAILY UK NEWS BEST BOOK OF 2022: BUSINESS Everybody has regrets. They’re a fundamental part of our lives. In The Power of Regret, Pink explains how we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose. Drawing on the largest sampling of attitudes about regret ever conducted from his own World Regret Survey, Pink identifies the four core regrets that most people have. With his signature blend of big ideas and practical takeaways, captivating stories and crisp humour, he argues that by understanding what people regret the most, we can understand what they value the most. We can transform our regrets into a positive force for working smarter and living better.

Daniel H. Pink is the author of six provocative books — including his newest, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. WHEN has spent 4 months on the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Best Book of 2018 by Amazon and iBooks. Dan's other books include the long-running New York Times bestseller A Whole New Mind and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into 39 languages. He and his wife, who live in Washington, DC, have three children -- a college senior, a college sophomore, and a high school sophomore. 

Daniel H. Pink

The Power of Regret

You need to know what is on your plate and what you want to put first. First doesn't always mean you will get it finished first but it is a focus.

Prior

When working on stuff there's always something that is going to be holding up other things. This is the critical path and you need to make sure that you order your items accordingly so that you don't push off the critical path and prolong what you're working on.

Critical Path

When you're working on a project especially a long one it is better to take your time and do things right instead of rushing. You might miss certain details

Things Should Not Be Rushed

This is a stash about keeping in mind the bigger picture and not rushing when working on projects.

Not rushing

If you’re serious about retaining the people on your team (as you should be), consider conducting “stay” interviews. These are discussions where you ask loyal employees key questions to understand how engaged they are. The information you gather can help you tackle common retention issues. Here are four questions to try:

No matter what the response is — positive or negative — don’t negate their experience or move too quickly to solving a problem. Just listen, thank them for being honest, and ask for more information before moving toward a solution.

What’s your frame of mind today?

Based on their response, explore what you can do to help them deepen those connections. Perhaps people from different departments can work on a company-wide event, a cross-division initiative, or take part in virtual discussion groups.

Who do you feel connected to at work? 

This question signals that you care about their development and want to help them achieve their aspirations.

What do you want to learn that will excite you and help you grow

To help them work better brainstorm with your colleague how you can be most helpful. Ensuring people can do their jobs well is just as important as praise and rewards.

What barriers can I remove for you?

If you’re serious about retaining the people on your team (as you should be), consider conducting “stay” interviews. These are discussions where you ask loyal employees key questions to understand how engaged they are.

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Communication

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Teamwork

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Leadership & Management

To Keep Your Best Employees, Ask Them These Questions

According to research by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Norton, participating in regular group bonding rituals, such as doing the Walmart Cheer or firing a Nerf toy gun to conclude a project, increased how meaningful employees judged their work by 16%. Employees who engage in these rituals show better "organizational citizenship" and tend to go the extra mile for the company.

Work rituals

Many group activities involve food, from community potlucks to global design firm IDEO’s tea time. Group rituals have three core elements:<ul><li>physical, such and specific words or actions</li><li>communal, meaning we're all doing it together at the same time.</li><li>psychological. It feels good to do this in the way we do it.</li></ul>

Rituals take many forms

Managers shouldn't start mandating daily chants or trust falls. To develop a group ritual with more meaning, consider using these steps: <ol><li>Observe. What are teams already doing? Watch, for example, how meetings get started.</li><li>Keep it employee-driven. Look for ways to encourage employees to create their own team rituals.</li><li>Provide resources. If team members tend to eat lunch together every Thursday, an employer can consider providing money for them to venture out regularly as a group.</li></ol>

How to create workplace rituals

Rituals—even seemingly silly ones—help employees bond and add meaning to their work, says research by Michael Norton, Francesca Gino, and colleagues. After two years of pandemic disruption, who wouldn't welcome a workday pick-me-up?

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

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