In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological change and productivity improvements would eventually lead to a 15 hour workweek. Yet he was also concerned that people would not know how to use all that extra free time.
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There is a book called The 4 Hour Work Week. The author points out that people in the US work considerably more than almost every other industrialized country. It is also pointed out that those working from home are more productive than those working in an office doing the same type of work.
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Cal Newport has an interesting article in The New Yorker about revisiting The 4-Hour Workweek almost 15 years on.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/revisiting-the-4-hour-workweek
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and yet, with more time (less work) we actually have LESS time to do things. funny how that goes!
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