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Monday, August 24, 2015

Working Over 40 Hours a Week Makes You Less Productive, Not More

LifeHacker: Sometimes you have to crunch and work overtime. While that can give you a productivity boost and help you get needed things done, in the long term—past four weeks—long work weeks actually make us accomplish less.

The graph above is from Daniel Cook’s Rules of Productivity presentation posted on his Lostgarden blog. It shows how working 60 hours a week leads to a productivity deficit or slump—one which you’ll have to recover from. He writes:

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