“Our brain doesn’t distinguish between what work is and what it isn’t, but it does differentiate between performative and non-performative tasks. Work is often performative, but we can also have a performative relationship with exercise, for example. We do many things out of obligation, not only work,”
The average office worker is productive for just two hours and 53 minutes of their working day, according to a survey of nearly 2,000 employees in the UK.
The 40 hour work week is an arbitrary number decided on 100 years ago. Most days people can sit at their desks doing nothing just to drain the clock out.
Would the 4 day work week solve this, or do we need people to rethink productivity completely?