{"id":41464,"date":"2017-01-22T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-the-secret-to-productivity-isnt-longer-hours\/"},"modified":"2017-01-22T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T09:01:15","slug":"why-the-secret-to-productivity-isnt-longer-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-the-secret-to-productivity-isnt-longer-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the secret to productivity isn\u2019t longer hours"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAlex Soojung-Kim Pang noticed that he got more done on sabbatical than at work. His latest book is about the benefits of rest and shorter working daysAlex Soojung-Kim Pang is a consultant in Silicon Valley and a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He writes about\u00a0technology and its cultural impact. His latest book, Rest: Why You\u00a0Get More Done When You Work Less, is an empirical argument in favour\u00a0of more limited working hours and greater understanding of the benefits of active rest as a means of raising creativity and productivity.What made you decide to write the\u00a0book?I\u2019ve been working as a technology forecaster and a consultant in Silicon Valley for about 15 years, and a few years ago, after lots of long projects and multitasking and travel, I started to feel the classic effects of burnout. My first response to this was to try to fit more into the day, to try to work harder. But when I was on sabbatical at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, I found that in three months I got an enormous amount of stuff done and did an awful lot of really serious thinking, which was a great luxury, but I also had what felt like an amazingly leisurely life. I didn\u2019t feel the constant pressure to look busy or the stress that I had when I was consulting. And it made me think that maybe we had this idea about the relationship between working hours and productivity backward. And [we should] make more time in our lives for leisure in the classic Greek sense, not playing a\u00a0lot of video games. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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