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Work Fewer Hours, yet be More Productive

posted by martyb on Sunday July 22 2018, @05:34AM   
from the France-says-"we-got-this" dept.

RS3 writes:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-business-says-a-4-day-week-with-pay-for-5-works/

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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Original Submission

• On the importance of good sleep to be productive (Score: 3, Informative) by pdfernhout on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:30PM

  by pdfernhout (5984) on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:30PM (#710918) Homepage

  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep [goodreads.com]
  "An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity."

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  The biggest challenge of the 21st century: the irony of technologies of abundance used by scarcity-minded people.

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