0:06 a recent GD Topic in an investment Bank
0:09 interview was is a four day working
0:11 system better than a five-day working
0:13 system now when you are given these kind
0:16 of light-hearted topics which of course
0:18 do not have many political or
0:20 controversial connotations you need to
0:22 follow something which is called the
0:24 goba technique so the Gober technique
0:27 simply says keep an open-minded and
0:29 remain flexible in your approach
0:32 you don't want to be very heavily
0:34 critical of one method at the same time
0:36 being very heavily appreciative of the
0:37 other because both have pluses and
0:40 minuses so today let me give a small
0:42 demonstration of the go Bar Method when
0:45 it comes to a GDA topic which is
0:47 contemporary and consultative in nature
0:50 now go means speak about two three good
0:52 points and by means speak about two
0:53 three bad points on that particular
0:57 topic so let's give a demo if you are an initiator
0:58 initiator
1:00 you want to welcome the participants and say
1:01 say
1:04 my worthy group participants I welcome
1:07 you all to this group discussion of ABC
1:08 Investment Bank and we have been
1:10 allotted 15 minutes to give our
1:13 recommendations on whether a four day
1:14 working system is better or a five-day
1:16 working system now as time is limited
1:19 may I propose that we can quickly
1:21 discuss the plus and minus points of
1:23 both and then come up with our
1:26 recommendations as to how and in what
1:28 Manner should either of them be
1:30 implemented if at all so as time is
1:32 limited may I request the views of some
1:35 of my worthy colleagues this is how an
1:36 initiative could briefly do
1:39 prevent and then someone who wants to
1:40 strongly support
1:43 this supporter who is going to speak in
1:45 favor of four day system four day a week
1:48 system needs to use the time of
1:50 preparation to write good points of four
1:53 day and also bad points now I want you
1:55 all to think what are the possible good
1:58 points of 4D system first of course is a
2:01 greater focus on personal life so
2:03 balance which means you are balancing
2:05 personal and professional life the
2:08 second is if people are supposed to work
2:10 in shorter burst they could have greater concentration
2:11 concentration
2:14 third very interesting benefit is saving
2:16 of logistic cost operational cost
2:18 because companies don't have to work
2:20 seven days or six days to that extent
2:23 the travel cost travel time is being
2:25 saved and therefore finally the
2:28 productivity of employee whereby on a
2:30 shorter concentrated burst the employee
2:33 could work with greater productivity
2:35 so you want to quickly jot these points
2:38 in your mind and then as your first
2:39 possible intervention you could say
2:42 thank you so much my colleague now
2:44 please allow me to speak further on this
2:46 I believe that four day working system
2:49 has some tremendous working points which
2:51 are very positive and three of them are
2:54 as follows number one with shorter work
2:56 durations it's possible that people have
2:58 better balance when it comes to their
3:00 personal and professional life and
3:02 therefore their health their overall
3:04 well-being can be improved the second
3:07 plus point is going to be greater
3:09 productivity because when people have to
3:11 work for shorter span of time it is
3:13 possible that they may be able to work
3:15 with higher level of concentration and
3:17 finally even for organizations it's very
3:19 good because instead of working six days
3:22 where their electricity consumables
3:25 Logistics are consumed to that extent if
3:27 it's only four days a week they could
3:29 save a huge amount of cost when it comes
3:32 to Logistics travel food consumption and
3:34 various the things so all in all I
3:36 believe it's a very wonderful move which
3:38 I very much welcome
3:40 and there is another person there who
3:43 wants to oppose this now think about the
3:45 negative points of four days well the
3:47 biggest is going to be breakage of
3:50 concentration with long holidays the
3:53 crash of service level because of the
3:55 long break and of course the very
3:58 obvious reason that organizations need
4:00 greater devotion and concentration to
4:03 succeed so a Critic could say my friend
4:05 I really appreciate point however I have
4:07 to submit that I do not fully agree with
4:09 all your points while I respect the
4:11 factor of health and a balance in
4:13 personal and professional life I have to
4:15 tell you that corporate productivity
4:17 demands three very important things
4:20 number one stretches of longer duration
4:22 if you are going to work for four days
4:24 at a stretch a person can at Max work
4:27 eight to nine to ten hours therefore our
4:29 overall deliverable will reduce
4:31 as the legendary Elon Musk says if we
4:33 want to do something significant we have
4:35 to forget about 40 hours a week we
4:37 should be thinking about 70 80 hours so
4:40 four day goes contrary to that
4:42 the second important thing is that when
4:45 employees will have long periods of
4:47 break they are going to be in a holiday
4:49 mode and when they come back there is a
4:51 huge amount of transition time both
4:53 mentally and physically which could
4:55 therefore be very delicious to their
4:58 performance at the organization also and
5:00 thirdly organizations have to deliver
5:02 their clients they have to provide
5:05 service so if they are not able to do
5:07 that in a certain level of consistent
5:09 manner it could affect their business so
5:12 all in all I believe four day system is
5:13 a very extreme step which could be very
5:17 disruptive now here I want you all
5:20 students to remember to insert proper
5:22 nouns and cases you could talk about the
5:24 case of Dubai there was an ERA in Dubai
5:26 where they started experimenting with
5:28 four days or four and a half days so you
5:31 could quit with a line and say as an
5:33 illustration under the previous regime
5:35 Dubai had shifted to four days or even
5:37 four and a half days but eventually they
5:39 found that while companies may be able
5:41 to ban it the clients suffer and now
5:43 most of the Dubai is back to five days
5:46 of working so add proper nouns I just
5:49 gave you an example of Elon Musk also so
5:50 this is the case of somebody who's
5:53 speaking for or against four days now
5:56 about five days well when you are going
5:58 to support five days you would need to
6:00 again do a good point analysis so what
6:03 are the good points here number one well
6:05 it's a very Optimum compromise compared
6:08 to the Past regime of six days a week
6:10 number two it gives you a balanced
6:13 working of about eight to nine hours and
6:15 therefore by giving that kind of a time
6:17 you give about 50 odd hours in a week
6:20 number three it still gives you good
6:22 time to relax during the weekend and
6:25 then work from Monday to Friday and
6:28 therefore add some amount of discipline
6:30 so by building an argument around this
6:32 you could say your point so my dear
6:33 friends I would like to support the
6:36 five-day system for three reasons number
6:39 one organizations do need time and five
6:40 day ensure that we are able to give
6:42 about 45 to 50 hours at least and
6:44 therefore that much is needed to
6:46 maintain the quality and consistency
6:48 the second thing is it gives us a better
6:50 lifestyle because it's very clear that
6:52 Saturday Sundays as weekends are the
6:54 time to rest while others are the times
6:56 where we really need to work hard and
6:59 focus and finally it gives a semblance
7:02 of consistency because we are working
7:04 for five days so then we are able to
7:06 give that level of quality and service
7:09 to our clients so I'm sincerely in favor
7:12 of the thought that five days is better
7:14 and finally come someone who wants to
7:17 criticize five-day system and well this
7:18 is tough because you are going to
7:20 challenge an existing system so the
7:23 person could hear talk about with the
7:26 changing Society improving quality
7:29 standards and general
7:31 influence of the society human beings
7:34 are also facing lot of mental stress the
7:36 Millennials may not be able to give long
7:37 period of time and therefore it's
7:40 important to curtail the time which you
7:42 are giving to work so this person could
7:45 go my dear friends I think your point of
7:47 five days are quite pertinent however I
7:50 beg to disagree by saying two things we
7:52 need to plan for the future and the
7:54 Millennials will be the workforce very
7:56 soon have limited concentration so if we
7:58 drag them to work for five days or six
8:01 days it may have really harmful and
8:03 deteriorating effect on their
8:05 concentration on the other hand if we
8:06 give them a clear mindset that work for
8:08 four days and then enjoy for three days
8:11 they may do best in both the
8:12 circumstances and focus for four days
8:15 and enjoy for three days I also feel
8:17 that as Society has been evolving we
8:19 used to have a six day work culture from
8:22 which we moved to five I think time is
8:24 almost ripe for us to take the next leap
8:26 and give greater value to human life and
8:28 balance in our life
8:31 so use the gobar technique to always
8:34 give balanced opinions and the last but
8:36 the most crucial thing role of
8:39 summarizer as I always say a summarizer
8:40 is supposed to give a balanced summary
8:43 not your view but what was discussed in
8:45 the group so a summarizer could go
8:47 my dear colleagues please allow me to
8:49 summarize this GD we had a very
8:51 vivacious and enchanting GD and although
8:54 the group was divided and the consensus
8:56 could not be achieved however most of
8:59 the participants felt that time has come
9:01 that we need to review the possibility
9:04 of Shifting to afford a system because
9:06 as Society is evolving and the
9:07 Millennials will be the future of
9:09 Workforce it's important to give them
9:13 zones of rest versus zones of work it is
9:15 also important to recognize that not all
9:17 Industries are similar some process
9:19 Industries where customer service is
9:21 very important well we may have to
9:23 continue with five or six days however
9:25 when it comes to certain education
9:27 institutions where there is burst then
9:30 Beach Schools or colleges we could work
9:32 four days and give them rest for three
9:34 days so all in all I think the group
9:37 largely agreed that industry-wise sector
9:40 wise we can evaluate and decide where we
9:42 should go ahead with four days and where
9:44 we can continue with five days
9:47 so with those words we like to end our
9:49 group discussion so this is how a
9:52 initiator a strong supporter a strong
9:54 opposer and a harmonizer or a summarizer good
9:55 good
9:57 do a very effective performance in the
9:58 group discussion
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