We are slowly shifting to a 4x8=32h work week here. 60h long term has nothing to do with productivity anymore.
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Last summer there were a bunch of stories reporting findings that companies that experimented with a 4-day work week saw productivity gains over the traditional 5-day, so this billionaire’s opinion sounds out of alignment with reality
Ahh, the typical manager misconception. Nope. Long work hours don't equal high productivity.
But I can understand that misconception, as it takes those people up there many more hours to get a single useful idea compared to those under them who actually do the work and earn the money.
I'd be down to work the 60hrs if it was voluntary overtime. But constantly? Probably not.
"Arbeit macht frei."
I'm sorry that Sergey Brin apparently doesn't have hobbies or family/friends that care about him, but 60 is still wrong. We have computers and work multipliers and have perfected efficiency... We don't need to spend the majority of our lives toiling anymore! Some would argue against 40, but at least that gives a balanced workday: 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of leisure. And I say all that as someone who actually likes their job...
Commuting should be included in the 8 hour work day. I shouldn't have to give up some of my leisure time to drive to work.
This would also incentivize denser cities.
Commuting should be included in the 8 hour work day
This would also incentivize denser cities.
How come? You'd be paid the same regardless, be away from home for the same time regardless; suddenly it makes sense to move further away from work.
Because you won't get hired if they have to pay you to drive longer hours. Employers would be incentivized to hire locally.
Not to brag, but it is for me! But I'm also not paid a large amount. And it absolutely should be for everyone...
Well, if Sergey Brin wants to work 60 hour weeks, be my guest. Sounds like a good idea for the CEO class, since they should really justify what they're paid.
Sounds like a good idea for the CEO class
Mate, he's a class or two ABOVE the CEO class. He's in the "trillionaire soon maybe?" class where you don't get to be by just being a CEO, you have to own major stock in a massively overvalued company that just keeps on growing.
He should be working at LEAST 50000 hour weeks to justify his continued growth of wealth at this point. Why the lazy bastard isn't doing it is beyond me.
And plus they say that they do all of the work, remember?
I thought 6 hours per days were best? Also, where I work, we’ve gone through voluntary overtime, working 60 hour weeks. People start to look like zombies and are more prone to mistakes by week three. It is simply not sustainable.
I was gonna say after a few weeks of 60 hour weeks I’d be fucked. Didn’t realise that was legit.
Irony alert: pushing humans harder while building AI to replace them—brilliant strategy, Sergey.
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people like this shouldn't be allowed to finish their sentences on their own terms. it should be cut short by an extreme force.
Has there ever been a better call to eat the rich?!
Only if it's for two people - 30 hours each!
When is technology going to make our lives better?
Sergi can eat donkey dick.
Fuck work
I honestly think it's more like 30. If we're all just making numbers up.
Outside of the google office would be a sweet spot for a guillotine.
Lol. Yeah. Shut up. Its not. Proven not.
It is if your an ineffective manager trying to justify their salary in a time of economic crisis.
Rich asshole says out of touch moronic thing. More at 7.
double the salary is also a very sweet spot for productivity
---Do most harm---
What a pile of human garbage.
I have found out that my productivity goes down after about 6 hours of work. And even if the productivity is seemingly the same (e.g. when I worked at cigarettes factory), I unsurprisingly made more mistakes when tired. Although I must say I am more tired when I do boring shit (or nothing lol) in office job than on production line, but it's just me.
Does he hate social relationships and his family or something?
Our? Yes.
His, probably not.
60/5=12/day 8/day for sleep Let's say it takes me an hour each way to get to and from the office. Maybe 1hr for dinner
Now I have 1 hour/day to do everything else I need to do? How did this guy invent Google?
You don't have staff to clean your house, cook your food, take care of your kids, pay your bills?
What are you some kind of poor?
You sleep at the office or work 6 or 7 days. People aren't often doing 60 hour weeks by working 12x5 and then 2 off.
Edit: Google even has those sleeping pods!
Ah, my bad.
So just have to do 50% more work for no additional pay, give up one of the two days I get to spend with my kids and require me to incur additional expenditure on childcare.
And he's suggesting this to quite possibly the most employable software developers on the planet? Kinda sounds like a fucking moron.
Kids? They don't want you. They want childless people who they can work for the 60h or more a week.
And they want to blame you for not having kids.
This. The ageism in the IT industry is legendary. The joke that dumbass Big Balls/ The Carver character (same thing) said about the other being 27 (like that was ancient) is very much a thing.
If you are a CEO, sure. But if you are not then it's quite the opposite.
If only these capitalist pigs could put themselves in the shoes of others.
60 hours is the sweet spot for maximal control over your employees life with only the normal amount of suicides.
As a sufferer of Long Covid, Sergey Brin can suck my ass. Any company can deem themselves lucky if I manage to make 40 a week. There's more to life than work, and it's not like they'll pay you for those extra 20 hours.
Did that guy ever work anywhere else?
JFC, and with the assholes in the government in collusion with these fuckers, they are likely to be able to make it mandatory.
The 4 day workweek is likely more optimal for humans, at least until we are post-scarcity.
Hurry! Before they change president and figure out all the data we stole from everyone during this glorious time!
Classic correlation v. causation. The sweet spot for productivity is believing in and wanting to do your work. For some people, this motivates them to spend tons of time working. For some people, this boueys then to high productivity even while exercising great work life balance and avoiding burnout.
Google used to know this, and spend huge amounts of effort and resources on trust, enjoyment, innovation. Now that's something to find at other companies.
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