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Re:Germany tests 4-day workweek amid labor shortage by whstl on Thursday February 01, 2024 @08:06AM (#39215530)
20% reduction of work is not working 20% less. It's working 20% less time.

Productivity and time aren't correlated.

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Re:Germany tests 4-day workweek amid labor shortage by rascul on Thursday February 01, 2024 @08:49AM (#39215862)
They are largely correlated in just about all work that I've done. Is your experience different?
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Re:Germany tests 4-day workweek amid labor shortage by whstl on Thursday February 01, 2024 @09:55AM (#39216627)
Yes. Heavily.

Even in cases such as manual work it doesn’t have a directly proportional correlation, since people get tired.

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Re:Germany tests 4-day workweek amid labor shortage by rascul on Thursday February 01, 2024 @10:08AM (#39216764)
Yes people get tired but I don't see that significantly affecting the amount of work done in general, for 8-9 hour work days. Do you?
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Re:Germany tests 4-day workweek amid labor shortage by whstl on Thursday February 01, 2024 @12:11PM (#39218315)
Yes, definitely. It also heavily affects the quality.
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