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Working for an American company from Australia, I've noticed a tendency for Americans to work overtime to meet a deadline, and Australians to vigorously oppose
by mbo 6y ago
Working for an American company from Australia, I've noticed a tendency for Americans to work overtime to meet a deadline, and Australians to vigorously oppose their peers from doing so. I've even seen people set up alerting if anyone makes commits outside of work hours.
There's an unspoken agreement that if someone puts in overtime and others don't, it makes the non-overtimers look bad and that that the overtimer should be _cut down_.
Probably not quite tall poppy syndrome, but maybe an adjacent phenomenon.
- Aeolun 6y agoAnd the overtimer should be cut down. That kind of working leads to management expecting the same thing every time, and before you know it everyone is expected to work 12 hour days.
- cutemonster 6y agoOr the employer could pay for the extra hours. So that with cost taken into account, the overtime employee isn't much different from the others. Instead, skill would matter more.