- How do you "define" productive? Doing useless work, could feel productive to the employee. Whether the actual work produce anything of value is irrelevant. Th

- How do you "define" productive? Doing useless work, could feel productive to the employee. Whether the actual work produce anything of value is irrelevant. They were given a task. And they execute on it. - If you ignore the productivity side, and ask if folks have desire to complete work with less time. Then the answer is yes because most human, by nature are lazy. - If you want more efficient so that more work could be done within the same time slot. Then the answer is mostly no. Most people dont want more work or move on to do something useful. I dont think the above is very clear to most on HN and especially programmers. Because those who are interested in technology are also the group that likes to tinker and drive efficiency. This is in opposite to government setting, large Bureaucracy enterprise outside of tech.