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Consider this, imagine someone working every single waking minute at their job. Clearly they will not be very happy and after a time not very productive. So th
by melissalobos 5y ago
Consider this, imagine someone working every single waking minute at their job. Clearly they will not be very happy and after a time not very productive. So there exists some optimum level of productivity between 0 and 18 hours of work per day. The big question is whether it is closer to the 0 or closer to the 18. Currently there is some good evidence for it being in the 3-6 hour range(I don't have the studies on hand, maybe someone else can chip in here). Now that is of actual productive work and not "work"(where you are just visible in the office or sitting at a meeting table).
- harles 5y agoI think this misses the point - the 9 to 9 point was probably just a distraction. Compare 4 day work weeks to 6 day work weeks. 50% more work days seems like a big advantage, even if workers only perform 3-6 hours of work per day.
- marmarama 5y agoAny advantage of having 50% more work days is quickly negated if your workers are unhappy, and giving them only one day a week off seems like a pretty good way of making them unhappy in the long term.
- DougN7 5y agoIt’s probably not the same productivity rate for each hour though. Those first 3 are perhaps most productive followed by less for the next 3, less for the next and so on. So value is still produced in the later hours. At some point it might not be worth paying the same rate as is paid for those first 3 though. Too bad all of this can’t be measured accurately (in many cases).
- thesuitonym 5y ago> The big question is whether it is closer to the 0 or closer to the 18. And to be sure, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. What the number is probably depends on the task at hand--though I would argue that (all other things being equal) it's probably closer to 0 than 18 for any job.