[HN Gopher] The surprising connection between after-hours work a...
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       The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased
       productivity
        
       Author : tchalla
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-12-10 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | simplypeter wrote:
       | There is no way that climbing the stairs to the 10th floor will
       | be as fast as climbing to the 1st or 8th floor, let alone the
       | 10th floor. The same applies to working hours. There's no way
       | you'll be as productive in the 10th hour as you were in your
       | first hour.
        
         | fleischhauf wrote:
         | I don't fully get the analogy. 10th floor is higher than 1st or
         | 8th, so then you would get more work done? You can certainly
         | climb 10 floors with the same speed as 1 or 8..
        
         | FredPret wrote:
         | Brains aren't like quadriceps. I get more productive as I work
         | longer and build momentum. More and more concepts are loaded in
         | memory, so to speak.
         | 
         | To me, it's more like speeding up until I hit the wall on the
         | tenth floor.
        
       | PedroBatista wrote:
       | Surprising huh?
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       | If the wording and subjects presented in the "article" sound a
       | bit like Bill Lumbergh with a polo shirt was the author, don't
       | forget Slack is Salesforce now.
        
       | kortilla wrote:
       | How do they control for the fact that people who are falling
       | behind frequently work more after hours?
       | 
       | Is it that after hours works causes loss of productivity or is
       | that slow people work after hours to try to make up for falling
       | behind?
        
       | greenyoda wrote:
       | Big discussion from a couple of days ago:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579890
        
       | cedws wrote:
       | >Employees who log off at the end of the workday register 20%
       | higher productivity scores than those who feel obligated to work
       | after hours
       | 
       | >Slack's Workforce Index, based on survey responses from more
       | than 10,000 desk workers
       | 
       | Okay, so this "productivity" data is self-reported. How do you
       | know that the after-hours workers aren't simply rating their own
       | productivity lower than actual, or that the 9-5 workers aren't
       | rating their productivity higher than actual? This data is
       | useless.
        
         | butterlesstoast wrote:
         | You could say the opposite is true as well. How do you know
         | after hours workers are not rating their productivity higher
         | than actual? How do you know that the 9-5 workers aren't rating
         | their productivity as lower than usual?
         | 
         | All data in of itself is useless. A sample pool of 10,000
         | volunteers is pretty good in the realm of statistics.
        
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