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There are studies which say that people can only focus on work six hours a day. Others say you need time to relax to become better concentrated at work. So why should people be forced to work 8 hours when 6 hours get the same result but the employees are more motivated.

I wish it would be common in Germany too...

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I like to watch some professional gamer's Twitch streams (particularly before bed, it's relaxing) and I've noticed some have expressed that they can only play 3-4 hours of ranked games a day, while others can play 8-10 with success.

Point is, it seems like I keep hearing about studies which tell me x,y,z etc; but if humans dropped into a zoo on another planet and a study was done to see how long humans could run, I'd bet you'd get some wild answers until you just let the people who like to run go out and run marathons, ultra marathons, etc.

Modern work has some aspect of captivity to it that we certainly subject ourselves to, when in reality we are all individuals with each our own strengths and struggles.

Could be, but if you are working, you need time to relax and build up new "power". I think for professional gamers, playing is work and free time at once. Maybe that's the point why they are able to focus for a longer period of time.

I work in Munich, our company will try out 6 hour work days to see if it works for us. There is defined a bit of desire (in the startup world) with adopting it. I doubt this will happen with the more classic companies in Munich though.

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