{"id":18631,"date":"2017-05-09T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.okappy.com\/?p=18631"},"modified":"2020-05-05T09:44:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T08:44:33","slug":"best-companies-care-productivity-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okappy.com\/best-companies-care-productivity-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the best companies care more about productivity than efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:20px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column 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