If I'm not wrong, productivity is measured as economic output/ hours worked. It seems pretty obvious that when people decide to reduce the hours worked, they will start pruning the less economically rewarding tasks first. How's that old adage: "work expands to fit the time available".
So I would expect that by cutting the hours, the economic output decreases less than proportionally, and therefore productivity grows.
So I would expect that by cutting the hours, the economic output decreases less than proportionally, and therefore productivity grows.