Over at the website Blogussion, a writer named “Alex” suggests we can increase productivity by doing nothing. How can working less result in more?

In the article, Alex admits this is weird:

Productivity is actually your ability to produce something. It even makes quite a contradiction to the term as well. Today, I want to talk to you about doing nothing. My favorite thing for getting into a working mood. The Less you do, the More you want to do. Later.

There is some wisdom in this advice, although it’s not that you shouldn’t work at all. Rather, the article helps to remind us that when we are doing fewer tasks, we tend to accomplish more. Clearing your mind of all the extra, unrelated work enables you to focus. Less is more.

At Slaughter Development, we constantly try to improve our productivity by doing less. Employees try and find ways to reduce the number of projects they have at the same time. And although we don’t want to spend time doing nothing, brainstorming and innovating is always worthwhile. The great ideas of the future begin as daydreams. Why not plan to do less so one day, we can do more?

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