[lbo-talk] People today just don't have the work ethic they used to!

[Andy F]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:28 AM, andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Actually sleeping less and working longer hours does not make you more but less productive. This is a result of industrial psychology that is so robust it could be the foundation of the field. I know of no, zero, zip work even disputing it, and every one of the dozens of studies that look into this variable suggest that more sleep and shorter hours make you more productive. I mean every single study, without exception. If you make people work 14 hour days over six or seven day weeks, you will get no more work, in fact less, than you would if you had them work about five hours (the limit of productive work) about four days a week. You just get the same amount of work done spread over more time.

How does this hold up in the face of deskilling?  I have no problem
believing it for a job needing the slightest bit of brainpower, but
when you're just being a cog in the machine....

-- 
Andy