Let’s hear it for the four-hour working day

Re:Let’s hear it for the four-hour working day by TwelveNights on Monday August 21, 2017 @08:53PM (#15068941)

The question the article wants to address though is whether or not working longer is working better. Maybe 5 hours will produce more work than 4, but this is attacking our traditional 8 hour system with the concept that, in the long run, you may be as productive while working less hours.

Then again, their last point about hunter-gatherers isn't very convincing, since our needs have dramatically changed in the last couple hundred years.

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Re:Let’s hear it for the four-hour working day by mc32 on Monday August 21, 2017 @11:04PM (#15069409)

I think people's natural tendency will be that if they can get away with 25% slack time now, they'll also take 25% slack time then, rather than halving their proportional slack time.

Basically people adjust really quick to the new baseline.

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