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    5 months ago

    Having lived and worked in Britain which also has the very same “work hard” fetish, I’ve always felt that was just celebrating the very opposite of efficiency:

    • A person in a quarry breaking stone with a small hammer 12h a day is working hard.
    • A person in a quarry breaking stone with a pneumatic drill 2h a day is working far less hard.

    Guess which of the two produces more gravel at the end of each day…

    In many industries “hours worked” might be vastly easier to measure for each worker than their productivity (plus under bad management highly productive workers get trottled down by the rest and things like bad project planning), but “hours worked” is in no way form or shape the desired product of employing somebody unless what we’re talking about is a Human Resources company billing those hours to a client.