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According to a study regarding office work, on average people are productive for just about 3 hours anyway. This is similar to some other findings (like this one), where about 4 hours of productive work per day were found.
Soo based on this increasing the amount of work hours doesn't really do anything despite making people even more angry and despise the government.
My personal experience is about 4 hours. Then I'm just wasting time, getting distracted by my own thoughts. If I can switch to manual/dumb labor after 4 hours of cerebral tasks, I should.
I’ve worked in an office and as a waiter. I was regularly working for less than a quarter of the day in the office job (and I ended up getting the fastest promotion in the history of the department), whereas I would be scolded if I looked at my phone for less than a minute in the back of the restaurant, even if I didn’t have any tables.
The first time I told my boss in the office that I was going to the bathroom he asked if I needed help finding it, then got really uncomfortable when he realized that I was essentially asking permission.
That is not at all my experience.
Of course 100% is impossible , but 3 hours is less than 50%!
Of course there are jobs where the workload varies, and you sometimes don't have a lot to do.
But most jobs I've been in, I'd say it's closer to twice that.
No offense intnded. But your anecdote is not evidence. Many studies have been done over this for many, many years.
Perhaps you are an outlier and are more productive than the average.
Or perhaps you are misinterpreting your productivity.
I never claimed it is evidence, but in fact that research isn't either. It's basically just an opinion poll. With very poor systematics behind it. And the claim is next to baseless.