Workers for the world, get a life

“One hundred fifty years of research proves that shorter work hours actually raise productivity and profits -- and overtime destroys them. So why do we still do this?”

For years, I’ve been preaching that productivity comes from working smarter and more efficiently, not longer. Reports of productivity gains that come from firing people and having the remaining folks work do their jobs too are BS.

This article posted on AlterNet, Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity by Sara Robinson is one of the best I’ve seen on the point.

Folks, if you’re regularly working more than about 40 hours, change your life.

What Bogus BS!

Keynote’s Mobile Minute quotes a study by The Yankee Group that states it measured website performance comparing a desktop computer with a tablet and a smartphone (the ubiquitous iPhone and iPad) and lo and behold, the results showed that the tablet was 8X slower than the desktop.

Of course, the desktop was probably connected via wired 1GB Ethernet, while the tablet and phone were connected via Wi-Fi and 3G, but who’s counting. (The blog entry I saw doesn’t have a link to the data so I can’t confirm my prejudicial reaction.)

Why not expend bits on something that’s not obvious?