hard · GMAT Verbal
A consulting firm is considering permanently adopting a four-day workweek for its analyst staff, arguing that the shorter week will not reduce the firm's total billable hours delivered to clients, since analysts will simply work more intensely across four days. A different group within the firm argues that even if daily output per analyst rises somewhat, total weekly billable hours could still fall if the increase in daily intensity does not fully offset the loss of an entire scheduled workday.
Which of the following would be most useful to determine in evaluating the firm's argument, given the other group's concern?
- How much analysts' average billable output per day would need to rise, and whether it plausibly could rise that much, to fully offset one fewer scheduled workday per week.
- Whether analysts have expressed a preference for a four-day workweek in past internal surveys, and whether that preference was tied to any expectation about their own daily workload.
- How the four-day schedule would be communicated to the firm's clients.
- What the firm's average analyst tenure currently is.
- Whether competing consulting firms currently offer a four-day workweek.
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