What are the best office hours?
What are the best office hours? There are many things that can be done to make your staff happy, but the first should definitely be to provide working hours which allow them sufficient time to spend with friends, family or on their hobbies or other interests. So here are some useful tips to establish the hours that staff should be at work: practical tips to take into consideration as an important part of business management.
According a study conducted by the Universities of Princeton and Harvard, staff wellbeing is not only determined by levels of pay, but rather by being granted the opportunity of working a maximum of 40 hours at the office from Monday to Friday. Working hours should ideally be from 9:00 to 5:00. That’s not all: over the last few years many workers have admitted that they enjoy working from home and they actually prefer it to working at the office.
A very common request is based on the requirement that management do not modify working hours without due notice (in fact people generally request standard working hours to exclude weekends).
Furthermore, shift work is not very popular, unless it is agreed with a considerable amount of advance warning, in order to avoid causing too much disruption to the personal lives of those involved. Are these requests unreasonable? Not at all if we consider that contented staff will certainly guarantee better performance.
The above-mentioned working from home can be a great help to many professionals, who report that they are happier and more productive when working from home. There, they can work without pressure or conflict with colleagues, thus performing at their best and organising their work according to their preferred rhythms (this type of work is becoming more and more popular, especially in larger companies).
These then are our useful tips for optimizing office hours and maximising staff performance: practical suggestions to exploit fully, not only to improve staff productivity, but also to increase turnover and profits. Why not give it a go for a few weeks? You will certainly see some great results.
Translated by Joanne Beckwith
