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Obellisk posted...

If you aren't 100% productive in a 5 day work week, you aren't going to be more productive in a 4 day work week.

You can be, though I agree with you that just shortening hours isn't always necessary or even always helpful. As a counterpoint to Kujikawa's situation I found I was most productive at a job I tended to work closer to 45 or 50 hours on a given week, just because I found the work more engaging (and being paid the most probably helped as well). Meanwhile I've also had jobs where I end up slacking off for a lot of the time with much less hours, even running just a part time job of like 20-25 hours which is well below Kujikawa's fix all number. Current job is working a pretty consistent somewhere in the middle, but I've had pretty similar productivity working 35 (7x5) vs 40 (8x5) with it.

I do think there's a threshold where if I passed my work rate would drop off to hell because I'd just be exhausted, but it's not necessarily a hard 40 across the board.

Really goes back to my old post that it's some combination of the monotony of the work, the hours, and the individual. I don't think the government controlling hours helps the problem because the first and third factors are just as important (would argue the first is ultimately the most important factor that can be controlled by the employer, and locking hours gives less room to experiment with that) and should be able to be fiddled with as needed.
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