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I agree with you 100%. Improving my productivity for 20% will not give me a 20% salary raise, since those two don't actually correlate. It would just make me m

I agree with you 100%. Improving my productivity for 20% will not give me a 20% salary raise, since those two don't actually correlate. It would just make me more worn down and exhausted when I leave the office, and require would longer recovery time afterwards, thus eating my free time. If the corporates don't want to compensate fairly for the extra productivity, then the optimal solution is to do a bare minimum of productive work and minimize own efforts to be able to focus on things that really matter to yourself.

MaxBarraclough 7y ago
> It would just make me more worn down and exhausted when I leave the office Only if you're working harder. Generally when people talk about productivity-boosts they mean working smarter. That may mean stopping doing things that are just making things needlessly difficult. The example in the article is a good one: > I would write all my code for a new feature up front and then test all of the code collectively Knowing that this is a bad approach is an important lesson - doing things that way creates frustration and wasted effort, and likely harms quality, with no upside. Another example might be with organisation skill: if you're working in self-made chaos, it's more tiring, more frustrating, and it's less productive and harms quality.