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The article perpetrates The myth of any working hour is equal. Actually its energy which limits the amount of work person does, and if we add more hours the same amount of work gets done spread on more hours, of course there are exceptions to this rule like where you just sit and wait and do some standard routine when someone comes like selling tickets when number of customers is low enough that your working speed doesn't matter.

The reason we have 40 hour workweek is that industrialists realized it maximizes the productivity of physical labor, and its studied quite through out. In mental labor the studies say that maximizing long term productivity is even lower than that. You get more done for a week if you add additional hours for a week, however within week or two your productivity dips so that you produce LESS than when you were working 40 hour week. If we add commute to 40 hour workweek, and count the stuff people must do to keep their self in working condition and not too smelly, there is less than 40 hours of leisure time. I just did Excel out of what I want to do in a week and what I MUST do (like eat, sleep...) Then end result was 187 hours a week, unfortunately for me there is only 168 hours in a week.