Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not. We’re all just tired

Re:Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not... by shams93 on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:45PM (#33469689)

We're hitting a ceiling based upon how many hours a single human can work without dropping dead from sleep deprivation, when you talk about 90 hours a week that means living at the office, over 90 hours a week and you're looking at only 90 minutes of rest per night 7 days a week.

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Re:Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not... by beckingz on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:54PM (#33469890)

7 days * 24 hours = 168 hours per week. 90/168 is only 53% of the total hours in a week, and leaves 78 hours for non-work, or 11 hours per day.

Which is an insane amount of time and probably does not actually increase productivity. The math does not check out as you claimed though.

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Re:Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not... by MichaelCollins on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:49PM (#33469792)

We blew past the natural limit many many years ago, except the limit was artificially raised by the normalization of performance enhancing drugs (namely tea, coffee, etc.)

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