If the Guardian newspaper were to let all its staffers take every Friday off without any reduction in pay, I wholeheartedly agree that the staff would be much happier and more productive too (at least on Mondays to Thursdays, when they're actually working).

However, wouldn't the newspaper EITHER need to cancel Saturday's edition completely, thus losing a big chunk of revenue, OR employ more part-time staff to cover the missing work on Fridays - and out of interest, where would the money for those additional fractional salaries come from? Are we seriously suggesting that the product on Monday to Thursday becomes so much better due to the happier staff that consumers are going to pay more for it? <boggle>

"Details", I can almost hear you say :)