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That doesn't make any sense. A 32 hour work week is not nearly enough hours to make an additional 8 hours pointless. That's a full 25% of your work week so far.
by mjfl 8y ago
That doesn't make any sense. A 32 hour work week is not nearly enough hours to make an additional 8 hours pointless. That's a full 25% of your work week so far. Maybe if we were talking reducing 60-80 hour weeks to 40, maybe. But come on.
- iamforreal 8y agoI'm honestly not surprised by the results, and believe them. Especially for things like programming
- zaarn 8y agoYou're assuming those 40 hours are used all productively. I don't think it's wildly off to assume that 8 hours of the 40 hour week are basically wasted because people like playing around once their concentration is gone. Plus on friday, people tend to be a lot less productive.
- hellweaver666 8y agoIt absolutely does. In modern companies many employees spend at least an hour a day (and in many cases 2-3 hours for less motivated employees) dicking about on social media, reading the news etc. If the change in working conditions comes with a reduction of this kind of messing around and more work focus, I could see it easily having a profound impact on productivity.
- adam-a 8y agoThis definitely seems like it's true. I wonder if there have been any reputable studies or surveys on how much time office employees waste on average like this?
- piva00 8y agoThere isn't a single human being in this world working 40 hours/week being productive for every single hour of their workweek.
- chillwaves 8y agoThat's a ridiculous claim.
- piva00 8y agoMine? If so... It's called "hyperbole". If not, well, yeah, claiming that anyone can be productive for 40 hours a week in a desk job for their whole lives is pretty ridiculous.