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Here’s an obvious statement: Simply being at your desk for eight hours isn’t the same thing as getting work done. But surely there’s some logic to why the 9-to-5 grind is the gold standard, right?Not really. It turns out that the eight-hour workday is simply a holdover from an 18th century reform aimed at reducing factory workers’ grueling 10-16 hour workdays to something a tad more humane. Once that became the accepted standard (about 100 years after the concept was introduced), we went with it and haven’t changed …
