With offices in London, Bristol, and San Francisco, web development agency Potato may not have a formal six-hour working day in place, but in 2016 they hopped on the Scandi wellbeing bandwagon by ensuring that there are no fixed working hours drawn up in staff contracts.

This means that their staff are allowed to turn up and leave work whatever time they like – as long as the work gets done.

Chief executive Jason Cartwright told The Guardian: “At Potato we work on the basis that creative, complex work just doesn’t fit nicely into the nine to five mould, and the same is true for the 40-hour work week.

“Instead, we give our teams the responsibility of managing their time, believing that they are the best judges of the time that needs to be put in to achieve the best result on a project. By opening up the working day, we can cater to people’s workplace idiosyncrasies to let them do what feels right rather than what a company policy says is right.

“For example, not everyone is a morning person, but they might work well late into the night. In a nine to five model we’d lose at least half of their most productive hours.”

You can find out more about working for Potato on their website.

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