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That’s interesting. A shorter week is the way things are trending, and seems to mostly offset the loss of total productivity with better productivity-per-time. I wonder if this will actually help anything.
That’s interesting. A shorter week is the way things are trending, and seems to mostly offset the loss of total productivity with better productivity-per-time. I wonder if this will actually help anything.
Narrator: It didn’t.
Greece gonna Greece, I guess.
Actually, it MORE than offsets it, leading to MORE overall productivity from not having exhausted and unhappy workers
Per that study, anyway. I expect it differs quite a bit across industries, for one thing.
They have 10% unemployment… it won’t
Depends what.
Customer-facing work: you can stay open longer.
Office work: yeah, since productivity plummets, I don’t think it helps much, if at all.