Executive Summary
We tend to believe that spending more time on our work makes it better — and that increasing our productivity to get more done will somehow decrease the quality of our work. Yet more time doesn’t necessarily translate into better quality work. In fact, spending more time at work and on specific tasks can actually hurt our performance and work quality. Research has shown that when weekly hours worked exceed 50 or 55 hours, cognitive performance and work engagement begin to decline, dragging down the quality of the work produced with it. And according to…
