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I wonder how much people are adjusting their behavior for these trials... if and when it becomes the norm, do the long meetings and less productive practices cr

• recuter 4y ago
  Elementary. Assume 20 productive hours per week (human cpu time) out of a total 40 work week hours (wall time, 9am to 5pm, 5 days a week). Productivity ratio 50%. Assume 20 productive hours per week (human cpu time) out of a total 32 work week hours (wall time, 9am to 5pm, 4 days a week). Productivity ratio 62.5%. Simply divide your productivity ratios by each other for a ~20%-25% improvement. I wonder, if we tack on just an extra 20 productive minutes per day for a total of.. 21 productive hours per week (human cpu time) of a further reduced work week of 24 hours (wall time, 9am to 5pm, 3 days a week). Productivity ratio 83.3%. An additional massive 33% boost over the draconian slavery schedule of the current four-day status quo! I think I may be on to something. Further productivity increases are left as an exercise to the reader. Hint: there is a totally logical and clear path to a productivity ratio of 137.5%!
• joncrocks 4y ago
  I think I remember reading a while back that _any_ change to the work environment ends up increasing productivity in the short term, before reverting to historic norms. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect