It's high time we stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. The numbers don't lie: People are working longer hours and barely putting out more products. The EY-Parthenon research shows a direct correlation between the forced return to the office and plummeting productivity. To put it simply, expecting the office to boost productivity is like expecting a fish to ride a bicycle: the office serves a different, and very important purpose. It's as if they think the office is a productivity vending machine: insert employee, receive increased output. Many CEOs are clinging to the false belief that the office is the secret sauce to productivity. This, my friends, is the very definition of insanity. Yet despite the overwhelming evidence that flexible hybrid work is more productive than forced in-office work for the same roles, top executives are stubbornly herding employees back to the office like lost sheep, expecting productivity to miraculously improve. After all, over two-thirds of business leaders report they're under immense pressure to squeeze more productivity out of their workers, according to a new Slack survey of 18,000 knowledge workers. according to a study by EY-Parthenon using Bureau of Labor Statistics, one would think that CEOs and company leaders would question their tactics. Send us feedback about these examples.In a world where we've seen five consecutive quarters of declining productivity in the U.S. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'insanity.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 McDonald has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. 2023 Webster acknowledged the shooting and entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. 2023 Mark was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and McConnell said his brother responded well to treatment. 2023 Sometimes a little insanity is good for perspective. 2023 And who could forget the insanity of the GTI W12-650, with its 12-cylinder engine mounted amidships, and a top speed of 201 mph? - Brendan Mcaleer, Car and Driver, 5 Mar. 2023 Most of the state hospital’s current patients come through the criminal justice system - there either because they’ve been found unable to participate in their own defense, or because they’ve been deemed guilty except for insanity by a judge. Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2023 Miller, now 50, pleaded not guilty for reasons of insanity at trial.
Recent Examples on the Web The spiraling insanity of addiction set in: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The straight facts about insanity are these: it has been in use in English since the late 16th century, for the first two hundred years or so carrying only the literal meaning “the condition of being mentally deranged.” In the 19th century it began to take on a looser sense, “extreme folly or unreasonableness.” In modern usage, insanity may be found in both senses: you may tell your brother that trying to skateboard while holding onto a car is "insanity" (in which case you mean that it is extremely foolish) or encounter the stricter original meaning in such contexts as insanity plea. An oft-quoted bon mot (frequently attributed to Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, or a number of other people who probably never said it) is that insanity may be defined as “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” While the job of lexicographers might be easier if they were allowed to use witty sayings instead of precise definitions, such belletristic labors are not within their purview.
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