http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/12/employees-hours.html Tim Berry on business planning, starting and growing your business, and having a life in the meantime Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:26:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/12/employees-hours.html/comment-page-1#comment-68 Jamie Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:54:46 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/12/employees-hours.html#comment-68 <p>Timothy Ferriss says many similar things in his book, The Four Hour Work Week. In it he asks a great question: "How is it possible that all the people in the world need exactly 8 hours to accomplish their [day's] work?" (Or 12 hours or 16 hours.) But that's become the standard and if we don't find ways to fill those hours (with a mixture of actual work, games, IM'ing, social networking, etc.) we feel like we're not being productive. Ferriss also argues that 80% of our productivity comes from 20% of our effort. Interesting stuff.</p> Timothy Ferriss says many similar things in his book, The Four Hour Work Week. In it he asks a great question: "How is it possible that all the people in the world need exactly 8 hours to accomplish their [day's] work?" (Or 12 hours or 16 hours.) But that's become the standard and if we don't find ways to fill those hours (with a mixture of actual work, games, IM'ing, social networking, etc.) we feel like we're not being productive. Ferriss also argues that 80% of our productivity comes from 20% of our effort. Interesting stuff.

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