CLEVELAND — On Tuesday’s Lunch Break with Jay Crawford, we’re chewing on actor Macaulay Culkin coming at the entire city of Cleveland on Twitter, how Microsoft’s four-day work-week worked out better for everyone and everything you need to know to cast your ballot in today’s general election.
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On Monday night, Home Alone star Culkin wanted to make a different kind of statement, tweeting a stab at the people of The Land in reaction to someone saying that Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield looked like one of the “Wet Bandits” robber characters from the film.
At first, Culkin made a joke and shared a picture of himself with a bucket of paint (like his character used in the movie to beat the robbers), writing: “I'm ready for you #BAKERMAYFIELD ... Come at me, bro.”
But then, Culkin followed it up writing: “Actually... He doesn't look like the wet bandits. #BakerMayFieldLooksLike a dude who's been living in Cleveland for the past two years.”
Not surprisingly, no one in Cleveland was happy about it.
People were happy, however, to learned that Microsoft tested a four-day work week, and productivity jumped 40 percent.
The company tried out the shortened work week as a one-month experiment at its offices in Japan, where everyone was given Friday off. In addition to the increased work levels, people were happier and took 25 percent less time away from scheduled work days during the trial. For the facility, the cost of utilities also went down.
In New Zealand, the CEO Perpetual Guardian conducted a similar study last year, except it lasted for two months. There, the company found productivity increased by 20 percent, based on workers getting all of the same tasks done in four days that would have otherwise taken five days to complete. Plus, employee stress levels fell and work-life balance improved.
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