This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is heresy, pure and simple. Yes, I have a super successful podcast about personal productivity, but oddly, I'm not a huge proponent of unbridled productivity.

Today we're going to explore why. This is the stuff they

made me take out of the first draft of my book, Get It Done Guys, Nine Steps to Work Less, and

do more for fear that it was too controversial. My stance on morality. In the last couple of years,

employers have figured out that you can work salaried employees harder and harder without

paying them anything extra. So by increasing productivity, they could pay everyone the same, but make a lot more profit

for shareholders. So for years now, we've preached the gospel of productivity without mentioning

better pay or shorter hours. Now, I happen to think that employees should share in any

benefit created by becoming more productive. So, now that you know where I stand,

let's get down to what it means to be productive. How productivity should work. You currently do

20 units of work each day. It takes five days at that rate to produce 100 units. Then you figure out

how to increase efficiency to 25 units a day. Now, you can produce 100 units. Then you figure out how to increase efficiency to 25 units a day.

Now you can produce 100 units in four days.

So you should get the fifth day off with pay

since you are still producing the same amount for the company.

Or you can still work five days a week,

but now you're producing 125 units.

That means the company is selling 25% more,

getting that much more profit. You're still working five days, but you should be getting some

of that profit, too, since you're producing more in the same amount of time. But not in the

21st century, you don't. This is the future. These days, they see that you produce 25 more units today. They fire your

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