There was a great article on HN a while back about how employees only do 2 hours of real, actual work per day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=781182 http:

There was a great article on HN a while back about how employees only do 2 hours of real, actual work per day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=781182 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=781182 p.s. I found this quickly and easily thanks to the Search link below (yay!). I like this feature, even though some don't see the point. Regarding this particular article, I anecdotally heard of a case where a Boston company took on summer interns and had a pretty, shall we say, 'flexible' work arrangement that allowed the students to socialise to their hearts content but also get the required work done. The deal was that they had X amount of work to do by Friday each week, but it didn't matter when or what days they turned up, as long as the work got done by the Friday deadline. So, on a Tuesday and Wednesday each week, the students were monsters of productivity, getting five days of work hammered out in two (long) days. From Thursday to Sunday/Monday they emptied their wallets into the many fine watering-holes around Boston. There's a lesson to be learned here I think. If I were an employer, I'd like to think I'd be able to take a ballsy approach like this.