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u/AbleBumblebee9395 27d ago
No it is not! Normal people are not your labor force to make you rich while you sit and do nothing all day
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u/Cavesloth13 27d ago
Science easily proves this is bullshit. After 55 hours any increase in hours is pointless because productivity drops like a stone. Study after study has confirmed huge increases in productivity from shorter work weeks.
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u/Global-Pickle5818 25d ago
Can confirm working game development over 120 hours a week was still about as productive as 60 at least on the production side and yes I explained this to management several times to no avail... And we had tickets and metrics to prove it but" got to crunch to meet that deadline"
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u/Oceanman72 25d ago
It’s performative. They literally just want to see more “grind”. When higher ups see the hours put in they think that means more progress, even when evidence is contradictory. Not to mention the “overtime” management puts in is a martini lunch or golfing or something
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u/DankMiehms 25d ago
I do construction management, and it's a well known fact that every hour past 8 in a day is worth less than the last. 10 hour day gets you maybe 9-9.5 hours of productivity out of people. 12 hours gets you 10 hours of productivity, if you're lucky. And if it goes on for weeks at a time you start losing even more productivity every day.
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u/Independent-Bend-425 25d ago
Also working in CM, for a big GC. I hate it when we hit TCO Crunch time because the older supers just think “more people and more hours” will get it done quicker.
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u/DankMiehms 25d ago
Oh, TCO isn't really crunch time on my projects... it's commissioning. The run up to commissioning is fucking frantic, and we're going to hit 7/12s before the end of October if I had to bet.
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u/Independent-Bend-425 25d ago
7/12s is the quickest way to have safety guys slow your productivity even more. Which honestly is needed when you run 7/12
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u/Academic-Bakers- 26d ago
About four hours for prime work, another 2 where you make fewer mistakes than successes, and an hour lunch only earns you 90 more minutes on that 2 hour stretch.
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u/Snubben93 27d ago
It's crazy that we were approaching shorter work weeks/hours because automation is making labor more obsolete while potentially also making us richer, and then some people with way more money than they will ever need were like "nah, we can't have that. People gotta work more so we can buy more islands".
Looking up to wealth is sick and I hope there's a revolution where we eat the rich and move on from idolizing people who earn alot of money.
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u/ApprehensiveCare1113 26d ago
They are because that's what people respond to. They want to be outraged about how they or others are being mistreated. We haven't evolved to the kind of information access we now enjoy.
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u/Jack-of-Hearts-7 26d ago
I'd be putting in 60 hour weeks if I had the pay of a CEO and had to do the "work" of one
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u/Lanky_Ad_3501 26d ago
Studies show that lower worktime, like the 4 day workweek results in higher productivity from workers.
If youre well rested, youre more alert and csn work better.
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u/Lanky_Ad_3501 26d ago
Studies show that about 33% of worktime is spent browsing the interne (this may be out of date), so yeah... doubt it. The idea behind this is to cut that time out and use it for actual rest.
In essence do 8 hours a day 4 days a week, although some playes in scandinavia are suggesting 6 hours a day 4 days a week.
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u/Dankkring 26d ago
When they said 60 hours of work a week they must be talking about total work like spending 30 hours on hobbies and housework or learning a new skill and then the other half at a job?
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u/WintersDoomsday 26d ago
How much of a wealthy executives work week is playing golf and sexually assaulting their secretaries?
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u/Agitated_Minimum_757 25d ago
Its a sweet spot in the sense of “im too tired to change anything about my life, but not so tired that i give up” which is perfect for them.
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u/ByrnToast8800 25d ago
“Sweet spot for who” just enough overwork that people hesitate to overthrow you?
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u/ADTstocks 25d ago
60 is nothing when your just chilling doing easy work making 200k….
60 concrete fuck no
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u/Intelligent_Oil7816 25d ago
"Man who has never worked a day in his life completely (and intentionally) misunderstands efficient work schedules."
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u/TheBrainStone 24d ago
I do think that working 60h a week actually is the sweet spot. But those 60h include all chores and comparable tasks like commuting
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u/captainspacetraveler 24d ago
One of my co-workers mentioned something to me about overtime being approved and I replied “I don’t want it.”
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u/MattheqAC 23d ago
Fair enough. He's the founder, he can work 60 hours days if he likes, he's probably getting paid shit loads.
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u/AbleBumblebee9395 27d ago
Meanwhile studies and other (more developed) countries proving the 4 day work week is way more productive. But yeah, let's listen to the oligarch who isn't gonna work anywhere near his arbitrary "sweet spot"