IN PRAISE OF SLOTH RELAX-AND GET SOME WORK DONE

摘要

How much do you slack off at work?If you're the average white-collar drone, the odds are it's an astonishing amount. A 2015 survey by a UK firm asked 1,989 office workers how many hours they spent "productively working" each day. The average: A paltry two hours and 53 minutes. The rest of those eight-hour workdays consisted of kicking back: checking social media, reading news, or talking to friends. Viewed one way, this is absolutely dismal. We're supposed to live in the age of 24/7 "crushing it," right? We're the Adderall generation! Sleep is for the weak! Ah, but maybe these employees subconsciously understand something about the nature of work. Science is increasingly finding that there's enormous value in working much less each day-and relaxing far more. It might even be the secret to true productivity.