EPISODE · Sep 9, 2026 · 8 MIN
Who Gets the Extra Hour?
from Decisive Moments by Julio Zelaya · host Julio Zelaya
A Meta employee asked whether AI productivity gains could bring back extra days off.The CTO's answer: "I get an extra hour. You know what I do with it? I put it into that."A Dutch software company with 720 people has closed on Fridays since January 2025. AI drafts the routine work. Revenue grew 11%.Same technology. Opposite decision. Both companies grew.Here is what 43,000 U.S. workers, 39,000 global workers, and eight months inside a tech company taught me: AI does not free time. It frees capacity. And capacity nobody assigns gets absorbed.The hour is real. The only question is who gets it.I break it down in this week's Decisive Moments, with a four-account ledger you can run in 20 minutes.Design the moment. Win the outcome.#Leadership #AILeadership #Burnout #FutureOfWork #DecisiveMoments
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A Meta employee asked whether AI productivity gains could bring back extra days off. The CTO's answer: "I get an extra hour. You know what I do with it? I put it into that." A Dutch software company with 720 people has closed on Fridays since January 2025. AI drafts the routine work. Revenue grew 11%. Same technology. Opposite decision. Both companies grew. Here is what 43,000 U.S. workers, 39,000 global workers, and eight months inside a tech company taught me: AI does not free time. It free...
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