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I have a young family, there’s no way I’m working more than 40 hours a week unless a rare emergency comes up. Raising healthy children and having a happy wife a
by auslegung 7y ago
I have a young family, there’s no way I’m working more than 40 hours a week unless a rare emergency comes up. Raising healthy children and having a happy wife are far more important to me, my family, and society.
If I were single I’d be less of a stickler about this, but would still not be ok doing more than 45 on a regular. After 30-40 hours, more working hours rarely translates to more productivity.
- muzani 7y agoI find about 20 hours/week to be the cap. The remaining 20 hours is just sitting around the office recovering from the intensity of flow. Working a full 40 hours usually translates to less productivity and my workplace has recognized that.
- auslegung 7y agoI suppose it depends on the type of work, but as a web developer I’d be very unsatisfied with my team if we only got 20 real hours of work. On my previous team we did pair programming and had a very sustainable 30-32 hours a week. Now this did include ~3 hours of meetings, but they were always productive, good meetings. Our trick was to work in 90-minute bursts, with 30 minute breaks where we actively stepped away, took a walk, played ping pong or Nintendo, got coffee, stretched, etc.