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RoGeorge:
Does anybody expect mainstream media to not be censored about a political scandal regarding censorship?  :-//
james_s:

--- Quote from: tom66 on December 08, 2022, 11:31:10 am ---But the fact is that Meta/Google/Netflix and so on typically run 37 hour work weeks with a fixed salary.  And it's well evidenced that people are not generally consistently productive on 60 hour weeks (there are some exceptions but this is generally true).

So unless Musk wants to compensate these people $250k+ a year for an entry level SWE then he's gonna have to hire more people.  And make the working environment more pleasant, less Musky.

The problem is he wants the $150k a year Bay Area engineer but wants twice as much productivity from them as everyone else.  And he wants them to do that in the office rather than at home, so add 10 hours of commuting to that as well.

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My observation from periods of working long hours to hit holiday deadlines is that there are rapidly diminishing returns as you exceed 40 hours a week, especially when you try to sustain that for more than a few weeks. People get tired and performance starts to fall pretty rapidly. If you spend twice as much time working you might get a 30-40% increase in work done. 2 week long caffeine fueled crunch is possible but most people can't sustain that pace for very long.
Wallace Gasiewicz:
There are lots of old studies showing that an approx 40 hour week is probably good for production.
Productivity goes down after 40 hrs and errors go up.
Most of these studies are in production facilities. Like assembly.  I would imagine the same thing holds true for most other types of work.
PlainName:
Why is 40 hours the magic figure? Perhaps it's because that's what we're used to, so if we always did 60 hours, say, then there would be papers discussing the lack of productivity if you do more.

I can think of many mind-numbing jobs where most of us would be prone to errors after 2 hours, and yet the real workers keep it up for far longer. And you only have to check out YouTube to see Asion street food being prepared at a stunning rate yet done without errors. I reckon they must be working more than 40 hours if you bear in mind the prep and clear down every day.
james_s:

--- Quote from: PlainName on December 12, 2022, 12:04:28 am ---Why is 40 hours the magic figure? Perhaps it's because that's what we're used to, so if we always did 60 hours, say, then there would be papers discussing the lack of productivity if you do more.

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Or because after thousands of years of society, once people starting looking at these things scientifically 40 hours turned out to be where productivity peaked. There are only so many hours in a day, life is too short to spend all of it at work. There's no prize at the end for having pissed away the most hours slaving away at a job.
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