{"id":98,"date":"2008-03-11T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/2008\/03\/11\/work-practices\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T15:43:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T21:43:28","slug":"work-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/work-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.37signals.com\">37signals<\/a> the makers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basecamphq.com\/\">BaseCamp<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubyonrails.org\/\">RubyonRails<\/a> shared some changes to their work environment recently. Here are three interesting ideas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a04 day work week &#8211; If people rest for 3 days, they will be refreshed and do better work in four days rather than 5 days of work and 2 days of rest.<\/li>\n<li>Pay for personal learning\/hobbies &#8211; This encourages workers to pursue things beyond work. Balanced workers make better workers?<\/li>\n<li>Let people spend discretionary money &#8211; If you&#8217;re hiring the right people they will want to the organization to do well and spend money appropriately.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think the last issue is the most important. Businesses should empower their employees to take risks. If you&#8217;ve hired correctly then you shouldn&#8217;t be worried about delegating the investment of company resources. This also takes away the bureaucracy of small purchases that can cause employees to go without rather that navigating the red tape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>37signals the makers of BaseCamp and RubyonRails shared some changes to their work environment recently. Here are three interesting ideas. \u00a04 day work week &#8211; If people rest for 3 days, they will be refreshed and do better work in four days rather than 5 days of work and 2 days of rest. Pay for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}