On 8/23/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoted the New York Times: > > > 1) Cutting everyone's work day to six hours will increase national > productivity; and 2) That if you change 7 a.m. to 6:30, it will create a > "metabolic effect, where the human brain is conditioned by sunlight." > > Now I know all this sounds extremely silly...
I couldn't find any confirmation of this "six hour day" plan -- closest I could find was a mention of a plan to reduce the workweek to 36 hours by 2010. Could that be six days a week of six hours each? There's nothing silly at all about a six hour day increasing productivity. It might. I think it would. However, it might reduce total national output. It's also feasible to tweak institutionalized work schedules to better conform to circadian rhythms. If 7:00 a.m. has become the customary starting time for work, you can move it up half an hour by changing the clock setting. Whether a change in the starting time would boast productivity might be a matter of demographics and geography. When I was young, I hated getting up early for work. Now I'm usually awake at 6:00 am without an alarm clock. Obviously in a tropical climate, you'll get more done and save on energy by working earlier in the day when it's cooler. -- Sandwichman
