The networks discuss the end of productivity with reemphasing a perspective of care in reproductional maintenance and productional development work. This is only possible with a pace that allows for qualified side-steps and qualitative experimentation. Not negatively defining this with taking the negation of the term productivity, we might as well call it the conductivity.
Jennifer Moss scandals Let’s End Toxic Productivity 
(paywalled archive , pirated archive ) in a column from November 13, 2024 about Work-Life Balance at Harward Business Review.
> Despite the longstanding perception that more hours worked means higher productivity, data and research are finding otherwise.
> To get at the root cause of toxic productivity, start by analyzing employee workloads to make them more manageable. You want to make incremental reductions in many places so the change is sustainable and enduring.
> That tends to happen when you have a collective existential crisis — priorities change, and how you really want to spend the rest of your days comes into focus.
The discussion of the previous piece in the socials reminded Christina Bowen of her earlier writing with Lauren Hebert titled Want a High Performing Team? F&*k Productivity, Focus on Team Health (archived ) from January 10, 2022 in the Coordination column of the socialroots website.
> The standard playbook for developing high-performing teams doesn't work, and teams that perform well in complex contexts already know this. They don’t obsess over how to be productive or efficient. Instead, they focus on something far more important: team health.
> A healthy team grows and thrives when the conditions are right, in the same way a seed grows into a healthy plant in fertile soil and suitable light. The metaphor might seem cheesy, but we chose it intentionally, because the metaphor of a team as a well-oiled machine is what got us into this mess in the first place. A team can’t be engineered to perfection, because it’s made of people, not parts. Parts are exactly as they need to be, but people develop throughout their whole lives, never reaching a finished form. The garden, as a developing system, provides a better way to think of a team.