Reminds me Parkinson’s Law, which states work expands to fill the time given to complete it. So if at your job you create an improvement that improves efficiency and decreases your workload by 50%, your employer’s “reward” for you is to fill that time with more work.
Entrepreneur Naval Ravikant has said previously that one of his favorite employees was this one guy who was more productive than all other employees while only doing 2 hours of work per day. The rest of his 8-hour work day (6 hours) was spent watching cricket matches.
Naval had to tell managers to leave that hyper-productive employee alone because they constantly wanted to fill his day with more work to do. Those managers failed to realize that if the productive employee was forced to work (or pretend to look busy) for a full 8 hours, that he might get burned out and quit.
Reminds me Parkinson’s Law, which states work expands to fill the time given to complete it. So if at your job you create an improvement that improves efficiency and decreases your workload by 50%, your employer’s “reward” for you is to fill that time with more work.
Entrepreneur Naval Ravikant has said previously that one of his favorite employees was this one guy who was more productive than all other employees while only doing 2 hours of work per day. The rest of his 8-hour work day (6 hours) was spent watching cricket matches.
Naval had to tell managers to leave that hyper-productive employee alone because they constantly wanted to fill his day with more work to do. Those managers failed to realize that if the productive employee was forced to work (or pretend to look busy) for a full 8 hours, that he might get burned out and quit.