From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: christian.bau@isltd.insignia.com (Christian Bau) Subject: Re: Your boss sucks, mine is better (was: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/12/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 294607173 Sender: news@isltd.insignia.com (Usenet News) References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <347DEBB2.5B6A@mWilden.com> <65mrcg$fmu$1@NNTP.MsState.Edu> <347F25CE.2ABC@mWilden.com> <65nbt8$jhn$1@darla.visi.com> <34835BC4.1B96@gsg.eds.com> Organization: Insignia Solutions Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <34835BC4.1B96@gsg.eds.com>, nospam@gsg.eds.com wrote: > Peter Seebach wrote: > > > > 80 hour work weeks are not especially productive; indeed, people who work > > too many hours are less productive than people who work closer to 40. > > Even 60 hour weeks leave to burnout if sustained. > > > I doubt most people can sustain productive brain-work for very long, > > or do it most of the time without needing breaks. Long ones. :) > > > > I knew a manager who thought the company was best served by people working > > six days a week, 8-10 hours a day, or more, and was, himself, in at least > > 60 hours a week. He sucked. His employees struggled, they botched, they > > didn't think clearly. Weeks were wasted. > > Well, the worst wrecks I've seen were when management isn't forcing you > to work too many hours, but you want the project to succeed so badly > that it warps your judgement of what your own limits are. It's sobering > to find out that hard way that you aren't Superman :-( >From a book of the late Eysenck: It was found that people working 57 hours a week were less productive than people working 42 hours a week. Not only doing less work per hour, but doing absolutely less work. Another quote: "You can force people do be in the company more than 40 hours a week, but you cant force them to work more than 40 hours a week".