Will get this for you in a couple of weeks, I'm on the road. Remind me, please.
--- On Tue, 6/10/08, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] People today just don't have the work ethic they used to!
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 6:48 PM
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, andie nachgeborenen 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.
>
> This is quite cheering to the point of utopianism as to
> what's possible
> and counter all prevailing wisdom. If it's so
> hegemonic in industrial
> psyche, are there some classic works you could cite?
> I'd love to look at
> them.
>
> Michael
>
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