Stuart Nash: Robert Walters Commercial Director on the benefits of 'chrono-working'

'Chrono-working' could be the next employment fad to wash up in Aotearoa.

It lets workers choose their hours dictated by their circadian rhythm, instead of the usual nine to five.

Robert Walters Commercial Director Stuart Nash says people have worked to circadian rhythms for thousands of years.

He says working this way optimises output.

"What we're saying now is - you know what, the best way to get productivity out of the workers is to let them work when they're productive. I will say - this is not an excuse to be lazy."

Nash says this is really another way of describing modern workplace flexibility.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now. As you know here at Hither Doublasyellen Drive, we
love a fad, and I've got a good fad for you.
Never mind the quiet quitting, or the bare minimum mondays
or the four day work weeks. We've got chrono working now,
which is basically we're instead of working from nine to
five Monday to Friday, you set your hours based on
your personal cycadian rhythm. Now. Stuart Nash is the commercial
director of Robert walshon with Us Walters and with Us

(00:22):
now Hallo Stewart.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Neither hell, are you good to talk to you again?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's good to talk to you. This is a dumb idea,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Ok. We've been working to our circadian rether than for
thousands of years, so this is just going back to
how we were, you know, before we had before we
hit lamps and lights and nasty bosses.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
What are you talking about? We were working in the
day daytime and sleeping in the nighttime.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
How did you pursue we were? You know we'd worked
with me at ninety five when it win tonight. The
thing about this is you know we all know this.
I mean, yeah, I've got four kids, right go to
twenty two years and nineteen year old. The twenty two
year old will get up at five am, the nineteen
year old get up at ten. Any of your listeners
with teenagers know that this is how it works. So
what we're saying now is, hey, you know what the

(01:06):
best way to get productivity out of the work is.
It's just let them work when they're productive. But I
will say back to your point, this is not an
excuse to be lazy. This is not an excuse to
start works.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
You I know, and what industry would this work?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, I mean it's already working in things like it
right where you go, where you've got programmers and people
who don't need to necessarily meet clients. We don't need
to be in the office at nine and stay until five.
It's really those who are independent. I mean, I'll be
honest with you. I sort of work this way. I
mean I started about nine and I finish it at
ten at night. But I take two hours off in

(01:43):
the middle of the day for a year. Star I
work with no I just sort of meet interesting people
like you. I am, but I do well occasionally. You've
got to keep healthy. But it's letting people work in
a way that is most productive to them, as opposed
to say, if you're not in the office by eight,
then you're in trouble. You if you don't stay until five,

(02:05):
then you're out of here.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Listen, I mean, isn't this basically just modern flexibility in
the workplace because we work on global economy and we're
just we want to stick weird labels on it. But
it's just another way of describing flexibility, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
One hundred percent? That's I mean, look, the bottom line
is when you get to a certain level, you've got
to trust your workers, right, I mean, you know, not
eve one can be your boss. But there's a lot
of the people that adds in going to an organization,
and it's basically letting them work in a way that
optimizes there their outputting their potential. That's all it is.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, Hey, thank you very much, really appreciate it's to you.
Always interesting to talk to you. That Stuart Nash, Robert
Walter's commercial director. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,
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