> You can be paid for time, work or outcomes. And all three have uses. It seems like one of the common mistakes we make when talking about labor productivity i

> You can be paid for time, work or outcomes. And all three have uses. It seems like one of the common mistakes we make when talking about labor productivity is underestimating time as an output. We see a job's time-per-task decline and ask why it remains a full-time job, but in many cases the answer is that part of the job is being available 8 hours a day, and more dead time between tasks hasn't changed that.