Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook has been getting quite of bit of coverage recently, praising leaving the office at 5:30. She just recently has become public with this fact. Sandberg felt the need to hide the fact from her colleagues due to she did not feel they would have found this to be acceptable.

However there has been a century of research establishing the fact that working more than a 40 hour work week actually decreases productivity.

In the early 1900s, Ford Motor ran a dozen tests on their employees work productivity. Ford Motors discovered that the “sweet spot” is 40 hour work week and that while adding another 20 hours provides a minor increase in productivity, that an increase only will last for three to four work weeks, and then turns work productivity will turn negative.

Even though times have changed it has been found that factory workers a hundred years ago is still often true for the productivity of the office workers today.

Many times the workaholics may think they’re accomplishing more however, in many cases the long hours result in work that must be scrapped and redone.

Europe’s Ban on 50-Hour Weeks

In six of the top 10 most competitive countries in the world (Sweden, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom), it is illegal to demand more than a 48 hour work week. You simply don’t see the 50, 60, and 70 hour work weeks that we see in the US business world.

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