A lot of it is “we can be more efficient” and therefore we don’t need to work as many hours, overlooking the obvious fact that if everyone can be 20% more efficient then logical thing to do is downside headcount by 20%, not keep 100% of the workforce at 80% of capacity.
Reducing the hours whilst retaining output is an efficiency improvement for the businesses.
The 200 companies is simply a list of those who have successfully achieved this efficiency target.
I thought this was so absurd of a statement that I re-stated the 9 women cannot make a baby in 1 month saying to jokingly point out that it's just not how these things work.
If Tolkien took an additional day off each week, it absolutely would have increased the time taken to complete his works.
All research done to date shows that productivity per hour is flat until about 60 hours or even higher for low skill work.
What you’re doing is called motivated reasoning. You want to believe that you can work less and still get the same amount done, so you cling to whatever nebulous explanation you can find to support it.
The reality is that you work less hours, you get less done.