This 996 bullshit is garbage. At a certain point, adding more hours actually decreases productivity. You have people that are overworked doing low quality work over a longer period of time rather than having rested/happier employees that are highly productive in a short amount of time.
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From the post:
>Nine to five is still alive. Sort of. A new survey of labour-force data by Amory Gethin of the World Bank and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley finds that the world’s employed adult population works an average of 42 hours a week. This number contains multitudes. Gender, age and levels of economic development affect how many hours people work. Many jobs are not neatly packaged into five eight-hour days. But the 40-hour week is still a norm.
How long people actually work is not the same as how long they ought to. Jobs, incomes and cultural norms vary so wildly that there is no right answer. But how you think about the optimal workweek does say something about the kind of manager you are.
This 996 bullshit is garbage. At a certain point, adding more hours actually decreases productivity. You have people that are overworked doing low quality work over a longer period of time rather than having rested/happier employees that are highly productive in a short amount of time.
Archive: https://archive.today/5623J
From the post:
>>Nine to five is still alive. Sort of. A new survey of labour-force data by Amory Gethin of the World Bank and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley finds that the world’s employed adult population works an average of 42 hours a week. This number contains multitudes. Gender, age and levels of economic development affect how many hours people work. Many jobs are not neatly packaged into five eight-hour days. But the 40-hour week is still a norm.
How long people actually work is not the same as how long they ought to. Jobs, incomes and cultural norms vary so wildly that there is no right answer. But how you think about the optimal workweek does say something about the kind of manager you are.
