You might be surprised that chaining employees to their desks doesn’t make them more productive.
It’s easy to figure out that a lot of companies collect the same checks from their customers regardless of how much their employees burn themselves out. Google doesn’t magically get to charge more money for cloud storage because they decide to work their engineers harder. Labor is only a small component of the cost of that product.
https://hbr.org/2023/07/how-taking-a-vacation-improves-your-...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-four-day-workwe...