Study: For better productivity, work an hour and rest 15 minutes

Eight hours a day is an outdated and inefficient way of working. If you want to be as productive as possible, you need to get rid of the relics and find a new approach.

An eight - hour business day was established during the Industrial Revolution as an attempt to reduce the number of working hours for workers who were forced to work at the factory, says Dr. Travis Bradberry in the copyright text at LinkedIn.

Such a dramatic invention had a human approach to work 200 years ago, but that is not important to us today.

Like our ancestors, we are expected to work eight hours a day, working on long, continuous time blocks. For God's sake, most people work at a lunch break, writes Bradberry.

According to him, this outdated approach to work does not help, but prevents us from making progress.

He says that after every hour of work, 15 minutes should be laid off to be more concentrated and efficient at work, because people thus meet the basic human mind need: the brain functions naturally in high energy waves about an hour, followed by a low energy current of 15-20 minutes.