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The question the article wants to address though is whether or not working longer is working better. Maybe 5 hours will produce more work than 4, but this is at
by TwelveNights 9y ago
The question the article wants to address though is whether or not working longer is working better. Maybe 5 hours will produce more work than 4, but this is attacking our traditional 8 hour system with the concept that, in the long run, you may be as productive while working less hours.
Then again, their last point about hunter-gatherers isn't very convincing, since our needs have dramatically changed in the last couple hundred years.
- mc32 9y agoI think people's natural tendency will be that if they can get away with 25% slack time now, they'll also take 25% slack time then, rather than halving their proportional slack time. Basically people adjust really quick to the new baseline.