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Don’t Call It the “End of the Siesta”: What Spain’s New Work Hours Really Mean

Harvard Business

This line of thinking represents a significant shift, from viewing work-life issues as private concerns to recognizing that managers play a critical role. A mounting body of research shows just how much influence managers have. This study will be published soon in Leadership & Organizational Development Journal.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups. The third was leadership visits, which meant extra hours were spent ensuring the store looked perfect. Requiring employee schedules to be posted two weeks in advance.

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