How about me telling you that the full hiring/hr/r&r is managed in such a way that there can't be growth to begin with and almost stimulates this behavior. The current job descriptions are not led by needs but by time. What do I mean with that... People decide before a true work need is established if they need a full time or a part time worker. They even go further in stating work should be done in 40% or 60%. Work that will be described like roles. Let's take a marketing manager - responsible for on- & offline marketing. What does that mean? What should this person really do and deliver, and by when? What would happen if we start job openings with the need for skills & deliverables, instead of time?

Did you know that we humans function best in a box. Even though we all state to 'get out of that box' we feel super comfortable in a short term framework guiding us. Hence if we have a task at hand and we plan 2 hours for it or 6 hours, we will spend that time to make it work. Meaning even if we can do it in 2 hours, plan 6 hours for it - we would spend 6 hours on it. We are this weird. So with this knowledge at hand - would you still leave your work day in the open, hoping you will run through your task list. Or would you maybe plan some time in for each of them and stick to it?

I've seen people at their desks, ready with their 'work' at 11.30am, awaiting time to pass until they could leave at 5pm as they signed a full time contract. These people have no pulse, no ambition or motivation to do whatever. They even lack energy at home to socialize or educate/grow themselves further through courses or sport. What would happen to these people if they just left at 11.30? They will become more productive, deliver more, and spend their 'free' time improving themselves through courses, play and additional family / social time. They become happy workers! I hear you say - but why would they then get a 100% salary if they don't work 100%. This is where everything is all wrong! Pay shouldn't be related to time, it should be related to deliverables. If you decide that this project x has a budget of x, and someone does the work, delivers in 2 hrs or 6 hrs, your budget won't change. Your output would stay the same. If you get the right person for the job and they deliver - the value to time spent is obsolete.

In a 'start/scale-up' this is easier to implement for sure. But in a corporate setting this is not strange or difficult, definitely not impossible. It's a mind change of how to approach a way of working that could open your business to new talent (gen y/z) who figured out that work to live and not live to work is the way forward. It could open your business to established knowhow without breaking the bank on a normal must have fulltime contract. It could open your business to moms and dads who want to work parttime from home, share the time they have, and have so much to offer. It could open your business to re-found time, finding new business opportunities and growth potential. It could open your business to happy people, true motivated deliverers. Companies like Google etc. work in ways similar and showed massive increase in employer happiness. 

This could start from your end as a deliverer with planning you day different. Not looking at the days ahead (I work 2/3/4/5 days) but at what you need to deliver to make the largest difference. You start planning these tasks out and deliver with happiness and greatness. Start making this a habit and you will see a Mindshift happening. Maybe you can deliver way better and more efficient in less time - I'm sure of that ;). 

Give it a thought, and be great! 
xo Arinda