## Workweek Notes

With moving to Friday's the following will decrease productivity on Focus Days:

### Open Dev
Open dev is every other Friday (pay days), this means off the bat there is a net reduction in focus days by 50% (26 of 52 weeks/year). Focus Days were created to ensure increased productivity across all orgs, reducing this productivity by 50% during this move is a huge hit. Open Dev is extremely important to all teams learning and removing Open Dev is not an option.

### Holidays
In 2022 there are 3 holidays that take place on Friday's (Nov 11 & 25, and Dec 23).

In 2022 there are 8 holidays that take place on Mondays. Often times teams take Friday's off on these weeks to extend a 3 day weekend to a 4 day weekend.

### Wellness Days
While we were intially told wellness days would be every 6 weeks, in 2022, they have been [10-11 weeks apart or 1 per quarter](https://paypal.sharepoint.com/sites/HR-TimeOff/SitePages/Global-Wellness-Days.aspx). That said, this far they have always fallen on a Friday: Feb 11, Apr 29, Jul 22. The below numbers assume that the Q4 global wellness day that has yet to be announced will also fall on a Friday per all previous data.

### PTO
Looking through teams OOO we can confirm that there is a high number of team members that take PTO on a Friday vs Wednesday. [insert data here if we have any]

### Total Reduction
Based on the above move from Wednesday focus day to Friday focus day, the minimum and max total reduction in output is as follows:

1. Minimum (open dev + friday holidays + 4 wellness days) - from 52 focus days to 19 focus days`*`
2. Maximum (open dev + friday holidays + 4 wellness days + monday holidays) - from 52 focus days to 11 focus days if someone were to extend all Monday holidays to 4 day weekends

`*` Between open dev and Friday holidays, we would have 1 focus day across the 9 Fridays in November and December. This is our busiest time of the year and will now have 1 focus day across the 2 busiest months for our merchants.

### “Improving Work-Life Balance”

How does shifting a focus day to a different day, regardless of whether it actually increases focus or not, actually impact work-life balance at all? To suggest it does indicates a fundamental lack of understanding of work-life balance, and either a disregard or ignorance for the proposal we worked so hard on.

If the stated motivation for this change was to achieve an improved work-life balance, what was the reasoning applied? And, how is that reasoning at all connected to the proposal we made for a 4day week?

> It's a true testament to employees telling us that they value Focus Day and wish more teams observed them that we are able to achieve this.

The only support for the change we've seen is folks happy to have a free(er) day again with regards to meetings. However, this premise is flawed because it only stands as a benefit if the culture problem of packing focus-days exists. Thus, no matter what day focus-day is on, it will inevitably be corrupted.

Candidly, it seems like just some useless approach to appease people that accomplishes nothing, at best, and in reality is worse that what we have now. Additionally, the disconnect in reason and action from what we proposed makes it seem like this was done entirely ignorant of our proposal such that it appears that there hasn't actually been an announcement yet.