Mandating shorter hours – through four-day workweeks, shorter workdays or more paid vacation – could be just what is needed to boost productivity and improve work-life balance.
In the sitcom The Office, a bumbling manager spends much of his time distracting the hapless employees of a paper company's local sales branch.
Somehow, despite all the antics that seem to interfere with getting anything done, the branch consistently manages to be the company's most profitable. Though that must have seemed laughably unrealistic to many fans of the show, it turns out to have some basis in reality.
