The most productive workers "rest" almost two and a half hours during an 8-hour workday, study claims

A hot potato: Many bosses espouse the belief that working non-stop for hours on end without a moment's break is the key to high productivity. But a new study disputes this claim. It found that the most productive staff work in shorter bursts and take longer breaks. It also suggests that in-office and hybrid work encourages a healthier work-life balance than fully remote models. DeskTime, the cloud-based time tracking and productivity management software from the Draugiem Group, carried out the recent productivity study. The main takeaway was that the most productive employees operate on a 75/33 work-to-rest ratio: work for 75 minutes then rest for 33 minutes. That means in an 8-hour workday, the workers need about two hours and twenty-seven minutes of rest to be at their most productive. During the remote working years of the pandemic, the ratio was 112/26, meaning the most productive employees were working 1.5 times longer without breaks, which were 1.3 times shorter. It was also f ... Read full article.