> I've seen companies where this happens, and people have Friday afternoons off because they already did their hours that week.
How is that a bad thing?
How is that a bad thing?
But indeed those employees (programmers, etc) saw that as a benefit of doing no more than 40 hour per week.
Sometimes you might fix that one bug that would haunt you over the weekend otherwise, I grant you that. More often than that, feeling that one has to enable oneself to finish stuff at the end of the week leads to fewer plans on Friday nights, too little socializing outside of work, less restful weekends. And those kill productivity and company culture in the medium term.
In the short term I have seen my share of lost productivity because people feel like deploying hardly thought through changes (if only to internal system) on Friday afternoons to get it done that week.