What's his secret? | CEO thinks he's discovered how to maintain pandemic productivity

• Buffer CEO, Joel Gascoigne, decided in the pandemic to allow his staff to move to a four-day working week.

• As a result of key changes to working strucutres, productivity has actually increased over the past 18 months, according to the ONS.

• According to data recently released by the McKinsey Global Institute, the changes that businesses have made throughout the past 18 months look set to actually double the rate of productivity growth.

It’s safe to say that the past 18 months have been a turbulent time for workers. With the advent of coronavirus came health and wellbeing worries, anxiety over vulnerable dependants, changes to working structures, furlough and innumerable other causes for concern. So, it’s understandable that productivity was negatively impacted as a result, right?