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10 to 5 is fine, if there's intensity. I think that's what the article essentially concludes.

• maxxxxx 8y ago
  A lot of companies aren't really that intense during work hours but instead just want more hours. At my workplace I often feel that the workplace is set up to constantly interrupt work so the only way to deal with this is to spend more hours. An incredible amount of work can be done in a week if the workplace is set up correctly.
  • gav 8y ago
    I've had jobs where there's an expectation that you'll do 8 hours of work a day, but they'll also put 4-6 hours of meetings on your calendar. Most people end up staying late or getting in early to try to get some time to do uninterrupted work. This to me is a toxic culture. I hate to use the old adage "work smarter, not harder", but I've seen so many places where people are working hard--but not really making a lot of progress. It's almost like you have to take the good parts of Taylorism and religiously eliminate waste.
• SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
  > "Overall, and I don't know a nice way to say this, I just don't see the urgency. It feels like a 10-5 culture, interrupted by lunches and coffees. Our best teams work like crazy." No, that says to me that they specifically don't like the 10 to 5 culture. It's not "10-5 culture, which is fine except for the coffee breaks". It's the 10-5 culture that's part of the problem.
• sdinsn 8y ago
  That's not how I read it.