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Burnout By the Numbers: When Overwork Stops Paying Off
Past 50 hours per week, productivity per hour collapses. Past 55 hours, the extra hours produce nothing. The research on overwork is unambiguous — and most companies are ignoring it.
Sleep, burnout, and energy data that quantify what lifestyle decisions actually cost your performance.
Past 50 hours per week, productivity per hour collapses. Past 55 hours, the extra hours produce nothing. The research on overwork is unambiguous — and most companies are ignoring it.
Sleep deprivation costs the US economy $411 billion per year in lost productivity. The cognitive decline from six hours of sleep matches being legally drunk. Here's the research.
Countries where people take the most vacation consistently outperform in GDP per hour worked. Downtime doesn't cost productivity — the data suggests it produces it.