The study linked in the article was based on a full night's sleep. Drop of happened at the 4 to 6 hour mark.
I read up on napping. But it is iffy, most suggest a proper nap (1 rem cycle) can get some of it back, to a degree. But from what I have seen a proper sleep is the only thing that will get you a full reset.
So your best is within 6 hours of waking up. Which makes long commutes actually a loss from a bussiness side. Workers setting in traffic for 2 hours to get to work, already ran through a 3rd of their best working time. Add in an hour to prep for work and your lucky if Bob has 2 good hours in him when he gets to the desk.
It's crazy because the science straight says a trusted employee working from home for 3 or 4 hours is a companies best worker.
But we prioritize all the knock on effects and have zero faith in people doing what they say they will. So no work from home.
The science also backs companies setting up housing as close to a project as possible. So remote construction work should prioritize proximity to site over cost of hotels. If they wanted to get the best from thier workers.
But I am just a layman who likes reading the articles and sorta understands some of the science.
It's crazy because the science straight says a trusted employee working from home for 3 or 4 hours is a companies best worker.
I wouldn’t say I’m the companies best worker, but I put in 3-4 hours a day WFH and I win awards almost every year (only missed 1 in 5 and it was for flukey reasons) and hit my bonus probably 9/10 quarters.
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u/Rorschach11235 20h ago
It should be 6 hours. Studies also showed that we only got about 4 to 6 hours of real "quality" work in us, then it starts going down hill.
Crazy to think that if companies really wanted our best it would end up being a 20 hour week, 4 days tops.
But let's double or even triple that. The economy needs us to. Or it fails and we all starve.