This is OT, but kinda related...

imagine if work was not a tyranny of clock in/out nazis, but instead you were expected to handle a certain work load. It seems to me that so many professions needlessly subscribe to the 9-5 model, yet do so at a loss. Do you think the average office worker spends even 20 of his 40 hours/week doing actual work? In our current office model it seems that most people are actually pushed to do less work, else they be given a bigger work load.

I'm not really sure if there is a solution.. for example if we started doing 20 hour work weeks, we might just end up with people only doing 10 hours of work/week. But it just seems that the average jerk in a cubicle is working to pass the time, not working to be productive.