Le débat sur le travail du vendredi après-midi mérite d’être posé, avec lucidité et sans hypocrisie (Par Cheikh Tidiane BÂ)
In many administrations, companies and even private organizations, Friday afternoon is often marked by a reality that everyone knows, but few dare to say frankly: productivity is generally very low.
After prayer, there's lunch, rest periods, tea, informal chats, last-minute errands, weekend preparations, and sometimes simply a reduced mental availability. Ultimately, we often maintain a theoretical presence, while actual work becomes marginal.
We must have the courage to ask the real question:
Is it better to maintain rigid but unproductive schedules, or to organize working time in a more realistic, honest, and efficient way?
For my part, I have already had to raise this issue in a company I managed. The board of directors eventually adopted this approach, not out of convenience, but for the sake of managerial consistency.
The idea is not to work less.
The idea is to work better.
A modern organization shouldn't prioritize time spent at work over actual productivity. It should strive for efficiency, clarity, and accountability. If half a day yields little, it's wise to rethink the organization instead of clinging to outdated practices that no longer fool anyone.
The subject therefore deserves a calm debate, free from unnecessary passion:
* to reduce wasted time;
* to better focus work on truly productive hours;
* to improve the social climate;
* and to finally align schedules with actual behavior.
Serious management also starts here:
to have the courage to organize work as it is actually experienced, and not as we pretend to experience it.
Jummah Mubarak!
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