How to evaluate the effectiveness of a service company?

Question

Time Management

Good afternoon,
We are planning to move a software development company to a six-hour working day. If the efficiency of the company at least does not fall compared to the standard eight hours, then we will leave the six-hour working day.
It is not particularly clear how to measure the "efficiency" of our company. Ideas in the number of lines of code or closed issues in the jira do not seem objective.
What ways are there to measure team performance?

Answer 1

It’s also unclear with social networks, maybe he thought about the task for 2 hours in his fun farm and then solved it in 5 minutes. And if there were 6 hours, then he would not have had time to look down in the social sphere and think about the task.
I would rate on an average project and an internal feeling of leadership. Those. if the manager feels that there is more money, then things are going well :)
You can also make surveys for employees that need to be answered once a week during the experience. Something in the spirit of "How did / was feeling, How do you get enough sleep, How much better / worse do you think, how did it become with the tasks."
You can offer an option - to work 8 hours or 6 hours, but with a reduction in salary and see how many people agree to work 6 hours.
True, all these methods are valid if you only trust the team, otherwise there will be lies and nonsense.

Answer 2

The effectiveness of management, which wants to measure the effectiveness of the programmer, is exactly below the plinth.

Answer 3

Google it, there is a practice of using this technique over the hill, and it seems like they abandoned it after a certain time, I recently read it somewhere.
In general, I would like to say about social networks, I myself am a hired worker, I work in an office and never go to social networks during working hours, no, we are not forbidden to do this, I just decided this for myself, even when there is not much work, I I read all sorts of articles, but not entertainment content in the form of YouTube or VK.

Answer 4

Don't ask developers about it :) Ask experienced managers. I use 2 objective indicators to evaluate the work of programmers (not to be confused with the evaluation of the qualities of programmers):
1) The degree of deviation from the estimates of the amount of work
2) The debugging quality indicator (% of defects) + Subjective
assessment scale by the project manager
private message. My contacts are in my profile. Also, there is a ready-made Excel spreadsheet with automatic calculation and data loading from Redmine.

Answer 5

I don't like this idea.
people want to work. they live like hell, spend 4-5 hours on the road, agree not to get much, but people want to work.
and you shorten the working day) no, efficiency will not increase.
for the simple reason that some of the tasks are solved jointly and without it in any way.
it is better to add some freedom of action
that a programmer can work from home for some days, for example.
or calmly, without dill from others, go to the doctor.