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For millennia, the candle has cast light on man's progress as it also helped drive it, allowing us to extend our productive hours beyond sundown.
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If anecdotal evidence is worth anything, my most productive hours are from 8pm to midnight, while my husband bounds out of bed at 6am, ready to crank out his best work.
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Bad software leads to security vulnerabilities that vandals and thieves exploit, and wastes hours of productive time as techies desperately fix bugs in the code.
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Working from home allows flexibility where everyone on staff can work the hours when they feel most productive.
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Because its routes are exclusively long-haul, Emirates has planes flying 18 hours a day, making them remarkably productive.
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The notion that working long hours and not taking holidays makes for a more productive workforce is, in my view, a managerial myth, with no foundation in organizational or psychological science.
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The person putting in the most hours may be seen as an inefficient worker and less productive than their colleagues.
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If 20 people are in attendance, that means that cumulatively you will have wasted five hours of time that could have been spent on something productive.
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People who do work more hours tend to become sick more often, are more irritable, less productive, and are not focused.
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He goes on to suggest how you might even find taking a daily nap more productive in the long run than doing things that bring little to no return, packing into eight solid hours something greater than any 50-hour work week could produce in the big scheme of things.
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