Should we be working at 85% capacity? The pros and cons of ‘sustainable’ effort

Perfectionism and productivity are uneasy bedfellows. The pandemic, job insecurity, and mass layoffs that followed have exacerbated over-performance burnout, leading to a new thought pattern in employee welfare; one that nobody dared utter out loud until now. What if we only gave 85% of ourselves to our jobs? Is 85% the productivity sweet spot? Devised by sprinter nine-time Olympic gold medalist, Carl Lewis, the philosophy behind the 85% rule is that to maintain a balance between excellent performance and excellent output, you don’t need to give 100% all the time. This is because working at 85% effort leaves 15% for…

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