{"id":6827,"date":"2018-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/the-case-for-the-6-hour-workday\/"},"modified":"2019-09-29T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:08:15","slug":"the-case-for-the-6-hour-workday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/the-case-for-the-6-hour-workday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for the 6-Hour Workday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they&#8217;re in a state of flow.&#8221; We have all experienced how effective we can be when we get into a deeply focused state, but the modern workplace seems to be set up with constant distractions. This is a great article, giving some examples of how we can shift our approach to work so that we can create an environment that allows us to do deep work.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/12\/the-case-for-the-6-hour-workday\">The Case for the 6-Hour Workday<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Executive Summary The eight-hour workday harkens back to 19-century socialism. When there was no upper limit to the hours that organizations could demand of factory workers, American labor unions fought hard to instill a 40-hour work week. But so much has changed since then.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they&#8217;re in a state of flow.&#8221; We have all experienced how effective we can be when we get into a deeply focused state, but the modern workplace seems to be set up with constant distractions. This is a great article, giving some examples of how we can shift our approach to work so that we can create an environment that allows us to do deep work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2018\/12\/Dec18_11_184316397.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Case for the 6-Hour Workday","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43,45,145,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-engagement","9":"tag-leadership","10":"tag-productivity","11":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7973,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions\/7973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}