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I worked at a door factory. We worked 20% overtime for 6 months. We made 20% more doors. Works great for manual labor.
by brianwawok 10y ago
I worked at a door factory. We worked 20% overtime for 6 months. We made 20% more doors.
Works great for manual labor.
- axtscz 10y agoYeah, generally overtime in manual labor type jobs yield more production. Source: woke in construction
- toyg 10y agoThat's the thing though, it's an old-school Fordist concept that doesn't really apply to modern service/creative jobs. Time, like place, is not related to productivity anymore, modern employers need better metrics.
- Bombthecat 10y agoDo you mean our lord and saviour kpi?
- brianwawok 10y agoTrue. OP said overtime NEVER works. I think it works. Just differently in different fields. I can code 80 hour weeks for a bit. Put out a ton of code. Can't do it for a month straight. But I could do manual labor overtime for a month straight.
- cauterized 10y agoYou probably also earned additional pay (at a higher rate) for overtime - which can help justify spending the extra time there, at least if you value the money more than the free time lost. Which doesn't apply to salaried employees.
- brianwawok 10y agoYes time and a half. Which was sweet. Factory sent from 2 8 hour shifts to 2 10 hour shifts. They got quite a bit more production without the full cost of adding a third shift. As a programmer I'm not sure extra pay would help. My brain can only code so many hours.
- ghthor 10y agoI'm productive for about 20-35 hours a week I'd say. Based on how interesting the problem is and luck. The other hours I spend trying to wade through my own feelings about being unproductive.
- msbarnett 10y agoMm, yeah, manual labour is kind of a different story. I'm thinking programming or more generally knowledge-economy work. We have fairly precise numbers indicating that productivity goes net-negative when working much beyond 40/week after at most a couple of weeks.