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The idea sprang from research that found people are typically engaged at work for fewer than three hours a day, said Perpetual Guardian founder Andrew Barnes. He said he started to think about the pressures that employees are under -- sick kids or waiting for the plumber -- and how those stresses affect productivity and cut back on hours spent in the office.
For some of us, less stress results in better sleep, resulting in fewer mistakes and more productivity.
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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @05:43AM (3 children)
Years ago, working as an engineer for megacorp, we had a continual stream of employees on technical exchange from all over the world. Primarily England, Ireland, France, Germany, Japan and China.
Most told me that the big difference in working environments was that in the US, you go into work at 8am, start BS'ing with coworkers, surf the internet and stick around for 12 hours to finish your work while in Europe, you came into your office, sat down and no socializing until lunch, then back to work until 5pm when everyone went home. I've never worked overseas so no first hand experience.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @05:53AM
My father worked at Boeing engineering during part of WWII. His office manager noticed that the typing pool workers were a little faster after a break, and started giving the typists longer and more frequent breaks during the day. Productivity kept going up, more typing got done each day. I think eventually they got to 50% break time and 50% work time but the typists started to complain--they had to type quickly during the short time they were allowed. Otherwise they didn't feel like they were putting in their fair share of work.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bob_super on Sunday July 22 2018, @07:42AM
Did a stint coding in a French bank, pre-internet (existed, but few had it at home). People worked continuously from 8 to 12 and from 1 to 5, with a 15-minute break in the middle of each period, where yapping was at the coffee machine.
Interestingly, that matched the actual school hours at high school and engineering school. As if having training to work at the right rhythm could be important.
There was a lot more work done than in my recent US companies, where you're being distracted every few minutes by random chatter and messages.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:42PM
I'm a USian, and at one contract engineering company I worked for, the general communication and asking for help and chatter got so bad they had to institute a 2-hour quiet time in the mornings. It wasn't the interruptions that were so disruptive, it was the constant anxiety about when the next interruption would come. People still talked and asked for help, just quieter.