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[beat]

I don't even think a 20% cut in pay is fair. Is our productivity, at least in brain-driven jobs, equally distributed across all our working hours? In other words, if we work 20% fewer hours during the week, will we do 20% less work? Or is it more like 10%?

[gherkinnn → beat]

Feels like 10% less “work”. Mainly because there are fewer lapses in concentration.

Harder to quantify is the time your brain gets off to dream up creative solutions.