[dmitryminkovsky]

> That translates to 1.5 hours less time on the job each workweek, or a 3% reduction in hours.

A search for “statistically significant” yielded no results. So why am I not to assume, especially given the source, that this is more of that “Americans are lazier and less productive” thing that plays out daily in right-leaning media?

[kodah]

Marc Benioff is a progressive and has been quoted many times saying the same thing about his own workers.

[dmitryminkovsky]

But statistical significance? I like anecdotes as much as the next person, but we’re talking “truth” and stuff here, right? This paper is out to critically inform me, right?

[luckylion]

Yeah, those right-leaning media companies and their constant bashing of the checks notes top 10% earners.

[pessimizer]

There's nothing that the right likes more than bashing lazy elites.

[dmitryminkovsky]

Anything to stoke the “culture war”

[lupire]

The source being WashU economists? Is that a right-wing think tank?

[dmitryminkovsky]

Well, do they say these numbers are statistically significant?