Just because the journey feels unproductive doesn’t mean you can cut the journey in half and get to the destination. Who says your brain would have still found the bug without the time invested in it that you’re interpreting as “unproductive”? Who says if you r brain didn’t need that investment in the big just a break that a break working on other productive things wouldn’t have been just as good as a day at the beach?
Also I do give my newer employees smaller easier tasks, but they still need review, mentoring, etc. which is just another “not hard activity that takes time”. One again the idea that you can just cut work hours with no impact seems silly unless you’re working like 70 hours, or unless you’re already just a voluntarily unproductive worker. Maybe that’s an underdiscusssd angle to this; some people just don’t know how to productively organize their time.
Also I do give my newer employees smaller easier tasks, but they still need review, mentoring, etc. which is just another “not hard activity that takes time”. One again the idea that you can just cut work hours with no impact seems silly unless you’re working like 70 hours, or unless you’re already just a voluntarily unproductive worker. Maybe that’s an underdiscusssd angle to this; some people just don’t know how to productively organize their time.