Productivity & Evidence
Long hours, the four-day week, RTO claims, meeting load, burnout — and what the studies can and cannot tell you.
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Official productivity data is maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics productivity program.
Long Hours and Output: What the Evidence Actually Says
Output per hour falls as weekly hours rise, and past a point total output falls too. What the research supports, what it does not, and what to do with it.
Productivity & EvidenceThe Four-Day Week: What the Trials Measured, and What They Did Not
The evidence base is stronger than it was and weaker than the coverage suggests. What the studies found, and what their design cannot tell you.
Productivity & EvidenceMeasuring Knowledge Work Without Measuring Keystrokes
If you cannot tell whether someone is doing their job without watching their screen, the job was never defined. How to define output instead.
Productivity & EvidenceMeeting Load: How to Measure It and What to Cut
Meeting time is the largest recoverable block in most knowledge organisations, and almost nobody measures it. How to get the number and what to do with it.
Productivity & EvidenceContext Switching and Fragmented Time
The cost of interruption is not the interruption. It is the recovery, the fragmentation, and the work that never starts because there is nowhere to put it.
Productivity & EvidenceReturn-to-Office Productivity Claims: What the Data Supports
The strongest studies find no productivity gain from RTO mandates and a measurable retention cost. What is well evidenced, and what is vendor arithmetic.
Productivity & EvidenceBurnout as an Operational Problem, Not a Wellness One
Burnout is produced by workload, control and process. Resilience training addresses none of them — and it tells people the problem is their coping.
Productivity & EvidenceUtilisation Rates: The Metric That Quietly Rewards the Wrong Behaviour
Utilisation measures how much time is billable, not how much value was produced. What it incentivises, where it still belongs, and what to measure alongside it.