Creative Reaction

There’s a “green” angle to this Fast Company article, entitled All in a Day’s work, yet there’s no mistaking its message that overworking will also have a negative impact on productivity and long-term health/happiness/social life/family life of employees.

“It’s a myth of modern hypercapitalism that an overworked, sleep-deprived, stressed-out workforce is a necessity. Studies have consistently shown that longer workweeks increase productivity only in the very short term.”

This article connects nicely with this “Urgency is Poisonous” (Signal vs. Noise) post (which I blogged about here) where Jason of 37Signals briefly describes the productivity gains from the company’s four-day work week experiment. The best ideas are often counter-intuitive.