Germans Increase Office Efficiency With "Cloud Ceiling"

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 5, 2012 @04:15AM from the little-fluffy-clouds dept.

Griller_GT writes "According to the top researchers of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organization (IAO) in Stuttgart, the human mind is set up to work at its best under the open sky, with changing illumination caused by clouds passing overhead. The unvarying glare of office lighting is sub-optimal, therefore, and in order to wring the last ounce of efficiency from German workers whose productivity has already been pushed to unprecedented heights they have decided to rectify this with a LED cloud ceiling."

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unprecedented heights of productivity by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-05 04:22 · Score: 5, Interesting

Can we PLEASE stop with this hyperbolic "productivity" nonsense? If people were SO productive, what are they producing? Why does it take 25 years to pay a house that can be built in 6 weeks? Why are we still working 40 hour weeks? The average work week went from 100 to 50 hours in the 19th century, with 19th century technology!
What are we producing, why, and for who?