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How early do you knock off on a Friday?
Full day on Friday or you outta here early?
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MY company goes with summer fridays so if you dont have the work, take the half day
I need my company to implement this.
Me too!
Sameeee
We do the same thing Memorial day to Labor Day. But my SDR knows better than to set meetings for Friday afternoon in the summer. :)
Haha dont mess with mcnasty
If my reps are pacing/at goal and hit goal the month prior, they can leave at 12pm Friday.
You sound like a top boss to have.
Then up-vote my comment 😂
there you go😄😄
My company lets us out an hour earlier and ironically enough Fridays are usually productive days
Funny you say that, been seeing a few people on LI recently talking about 4 weeks and how you get more done. I personally think it would work for me, how about you?
I think it works great. I feel like my company cares about me when they trust me enough to give me a 7 hour Friday so in turn I work harder to produce results😎
A good poll would have a few options to capture all of the buckets. And for that reason, I'm out.
Also 3pm.
Also 3pm.
My apologies, what would have you added? No show Friday?
If I don't have anything urgent, and my number is all good, 2-3 hours early.
But if I have a busy week next week, or I'm not exceeding, Friday afternoons are for planning.
It's situational
But if I have a busy week next week, or I'm not exceeding, Friday afternoons are for planning.
It's situational
I think this is a good way too look at it.
Agreed!
Usually 1-2 hours earlier as long as I don't have any urgent tasks. This weekend is a long weekend for us so most people are mentally checked out by lunch time.
Thats what i find, most are mentally checked out by lunch even if the company expects you to leave at the normal closing time
Yeah, I'd like to see half day Fridays at my company. Even management admits Friday afternoons are unproductive for people across the board. If a rep wants to work because they have actual stuff to get done, go for it. But I don't see the point in sitting there pretending to work for three hours because it doesn't make sense to start a new project/cold call/all your admin is done/you're just mentally done for the week.
100% agree. Then again I ended up working on half hour longer this evening anyways to get stuff done. Swings and roundabouts
I usually take a half day. Bust my ass off in the morning and take off. I live in Mountain time but all my accounts are based in Eastern time zone so it works out for me.
Time zones makes a huge difference for sure. My current role is dealing with far east in the morning and USA in the afternoons so it doesn't work so well here
Agreed- living in PST and working EST hours is lifeeee.
I knock off all the time....
🤣 I feel you
😂
Some of the best prospect conversations happen between 3-5pm on Friday! Everyone's looking forward to the weekend, and your call/email lands when there's not a lot of noise. It's definitely worth working til the buzzer for me.
I actually have found the same thing. Still want to knock off early tho 😂
Yeah... I'll be the first to admit I don't do this EVERY Friday
Get your work done and you can leave whenever. I like to have an atmosphere of trust where you can come and go as you please as long as you're hitting your numbers. If not, keep grinding.
This is the best attitude to have in modern business, nice one!
Depends on the weather. Bright and sunny, heading to the pub around 4pm. Rainy day, the usual 5:30 PM
5.30 finish for you today then eh😄 summer and sun abandoned us here due to co covid-21
At my company, we don't have any internal meetings on Fridays which leads to me being more productive so generally, I'm out a bit earlier than other days which is a nice refresh
That's a great idea, might bring it up here thanks 👍
We call them Funky Fridays - everyone needs a break from internal zoom meetings. It definitely shifts morale.
Thursday night.
4 day week, niiiiicce
Busy morn Friday's I usually leave most of my campaign review calls till a Friday ( ppl in a better mood ) and finish up about 3 to catch some admin and wind down. That is in an ideal world once not chasing pipeline after 3pm I'm out! Our Company gives us "You days" once a month take a Friday off company-wide so the 4 day week is working well for us.
Hey thats a great idea "you days". So once a month you have a 4 day week. Can you take off any Friday or is there a designated Friday everybody takes off?
Every Friday off at my company (so long as it doesn't interfere with reasonable business needs) So if a client/prospect wants your time it is what it is. But the lack of internal meetings as a result of the policy is enough to make it a great benefit.
I'm really interested in this model and how it works for other companies, has the company gone on to be better since implementing it or has it always been this way?
I've been in the firm for 15 months, and our business is squarely in the crosshairs of the Rona so it's hard to gauge any meaningful insight from this time period. That said it is baked into the ethos of the culture (SV startup enviro) so it's fundamental to the org to have a "pause". Historically it's been 2x a day for 20 min then every 6 weeks a full day. Over covid it moved to alternating Fridays and then every Friday (still the 2x a day 20 minute blocks). The challenges are everything you would expect if you have client facing business spread across timezones, people comped against call activity (calls dialed, etc) and quota carriers.
That said, the science is clear here that it provides a true net benefit to overall health and wellbeing to pause and manage stress appropriately. If that's a value of the org (not killing your people), then it's worth the effort IMO. Happy to talk more offline about specifics of implementation, science behind it, ROI etc if that's of interest.
The workplace is the 5th leading cause of death in the US.
That said, the science is clear here that it provides a true net benefit to overall health and wellbeing to pause and manage stress appropriately. If that's a value of the org (not killing your people), then it's worth the effort IMO. Happy to talk more offline about specifics of implementation, science behind it, ROI etc if that's of interest.
The workplace is the 5th leading cause of death in the US.
If my reps are pacing/at goal and hit goal the month prior, they can leave at 12pm Friday.
Just be honest, you don't want to say "yeah we can definitely do that" and then miss.
Once I'm done prepping for Monday it's pint time.
Nobody is useful on a Friday aft, champs won't complete tasks, C's/VP's don't want to hear from me etc
Nobody is useful on a Friday aft, champs won't complete tasks, C's/VP's don't want to hear from me etc
Its a fair point. Altho I have snagged a few decent phone calls on Friday afternoons cos prospects are less busy.
My boss has been scheduling calls at 430pn EST to keep us working Fridays. I’m on the east coast and not super happy about it.
What an absolute dick. He must be a miserable human with a family who he hates/hates him to want to strong arm like that.
🤪 that sucks, is he a micromanager too by any chance?
I'm pretty sure half my company is on the golf course on Fridays so I usually wrap it up early
😄just assume so, can't go wrong
😂
Depends... if I put up a few meetings before lunch time... I might sneak out right around then...
I do that on Tuesdays as well, yes boss, meeting was like 3 hours long 😇
I usually don't have a problem making a few extra calls on Friday. I've set meetings for the next week. Prospect's are loving the fact it's Friday, and in a better mood to talk through a few things.
Definitely with you on the mood thing, find that with prospects on Friday afternoons
My company is Australian (not a flex, fun accents are one of the few non-traditional value-adds so far) so if we're going out to happy hour that night our bosses encourage us to start drinking in the office around 3:30 or 4 😂
Haha now that is a benefit if I ever saw one
Friday is CLOSING day! 👊🏻
Follow up Friday?
Yeees my man.
Fridays are pretty much always half days or like I let my team go at 2:30 at the latest
Can I work for you 😂
Worked for an amazing start-up a few years back. The office location was right in the heart of the CBD. Friday would come around and the beers and whiskey would be cracked open at 3-4 pm and most of the team would hang out till 7 pm having a great time. Miss that company.
that does sound like a great culture. Covid probably also killed a lot of that sort of thing
I’m usually off a bit earlier on Fridays, around 4-4:30 (4:20 right now).
Go grab a brew🍻
I get the most done on Fridays
i think the same, its that deadline day thing
Good month prior? Around noon.
My boss is more like, ok good you had a good month but you can do better now so carry on working
As much as I try. My Friday ends up finding a way to extend itself
😂 these self extending days
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