Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss

Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go... by tonyjstark on Friday August 19, 2016 @11:26AM (#12320690)

Of course every personal experience is just anecdotal but since I only work 24 hours a week I feel able to educate myself, do sports, feel more healthy. Before that I worked one week full and one week only 4 days repeatedly and I really got the feeling that coming in on Mondays after a short week was so much easier. I felt more relaxed and satisfied because I could do other stuff on the weekend than trying to catch up with buying things and all that organizational junk you have to do as an adult.

Now I work 6 hours a day, 4 days a week and I don't take long breaks anymore. I stopped to read blogs or news at work after lunch, I just work. Would be really interesting if this is just me or if it could be scientifically proven that working less is more.

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Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go... by rdm42116 on Friday August 19, 2016 @11:30AM (#12320725)

May I ask what industry you work in?

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Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go... by tonyjstark on Sunday August 21, 2016 @08:49AM (#12330743)

I support researchers of the humanities by developing different services like registries and restful apis. But you know, everything has it's cost. I am definitely underpaid but at some point I decided time > money for now.

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Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go... by wineisfine on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:18PM (#12321645)

That's right, no man can excel more then 6 hours a day doing great, focused work.

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Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go... by mattm on Friday August 19, 2016 @08:04PM (#12324362)

We can't all be Iron Man unfortunately ;)

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