Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

Today's topic is productivity.

One of the big problems I see in the way that we work as a society in general is that we focus so much on hours we've worked as opposed to actual work that we have done.

And that's not really our fault because it's how we've been incentivised.

We are usually paid per hour, which means that there is really no benefit to us doing things fast or efficiently. Most people get paid for a

nine to five job and I'm pretty sure they would work harder or more efficiently or be more

productive if they were paid per unit of work that they did. And I realised this is hard for some jobs, and in some

situations it would be quite hard to calculate this. But if, for example, you had X amount of emails

to reply to, and when you'd done them that you got to go home, I'm pretty sure you would do them faster than just

knowing that you had to be at work nine to five no matter what. Or if you had to stock X amount of

shelves and you were paid to do that if it took you two hours or if it took you four hours,

the outcome is the same. so your boss shouldn't necessarily care.

But if it only took you two hours, you'd probably have some mundane task to do for the next two

hours, or you'd essentially just be sitting around, you know, waiting until you could leave.

This is one of the reasons that I hated working conventional jobs. you know, waiting until you could leave.

This is one of the reasons that I hated working conventional jobs.

Even if there's nothing to do, you still have to wait till 5pm,

which just makes zero sense to me.

And one of my pet peeves is wishing away time.

Like, I kind of get annoyed about this in the pandemic as well that people are like, oh, just, you know, just got to wait till this next lockdown is over.

And I think that's a really shitty way to think about things. There is so much that you can do at the

moment. Yes, there's a lot that you can't do, but please don't wish away the time.

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