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If you work 8 hours a day, you are productive 4 hours a day, (So you are basically paid double salary for your 4 hours or productive work). If you work 6 hours a day, you will most likely be productive 3 hours a day.



At the risk of outing myself as "sometimes unproductive," I have found this to not be the case at all.

I had a really clear example a number of years ago where I had been working full-time, but changed things up from salaried to strictly hourly and started coming in exactly six hours a day instead of eight to "however long it took" hours.

It made a remarkable difference -- I arrived rested and with most of the things that can be distractions (errands, paying bills, dealing with other personal issues) already taken care of. I was able to get down to work and focus hard for six hours, and my own productivity on the project increased. It was kind of surprising actually.

I doubt I'm the only programmer who ever experienced something like this.




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