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Elevate with Robert Glazer
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The Problem With Slow Productivity
Earlier this year, you wrote a New Yorker piece on the hot topic of burnout. And you argued that the solution of burnout is not the four day work week but slow productivity. Can you explain what your research found and why you think that's actually the correct solution to the problem? Yeah. The work week is relevant to an industrial context. It's very aimed at hourly style industrial work where the only knob you have are how much work do I actually do and how much I get paid for it.
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