Well, yeah, productivity has continued to increase without commensurate decrease in working hours. That doesn't necessarily imply that all working hours are pr

Well, yeah, productivity has continued to increase without commensurate decrease in working hours. That doesn't necessarily imply that all working hours are productive, instead we seem to need to fill them with something, and meetings meet the requirements. Or in other words > The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) - Stafford Beer[1] Meetings serve to look like you're doing something and they take up a lot of time. They serve the purpose precisely. Rather than try to decrease meetings and increase productive working hours, we should take the cue, read the room, and match the cure to the diagnosis, and do what Keynes predicted[2]: work 15-hour weeks. It's what we're doing already, we're just afraid to admit it. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha... 2. http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf