If you feel like you are busy all day but somehow finish very little, you are not imagining it. According to the Office for National Statistics, the average UK employee works an 8-hour day but is genuinely productive for only 2 hours and 53 minutes of it. That is not a motivation problem. It is a design problem, and most productivity articles never touch the real reasons behind it. Most guides recycle the same five ideas: make a to-do list, use the Eisenhower Matrix, eat the frog, try the Pomodoro Technique, batch your emails. Those ideas are not wrong, but…
