"In no world can you be working 5 hours a day and be giving a shit, and so the conclusion is that very little meaningful work gets done at Google. Maybe a bit o

"In no world can you be working 5 hours a day and be giving a shit, and so the conclusion is that very little meaningful work gets done at Google. Maybe a bit of a hyperbole, but not far from the truth." This is just silly. 5 hours of intensely focused, silent, eyes-glued-to-monitor-and-keyboard work beats the conventional 8 hours of work involving socializing/chatting with coworkers over the cubicle, making phone calls, checking in on people, walking around an office, taking breaks, etc., which itself seems to lead to approximately the same 5 hours of actual work... just with much less intense focus (intense focus which is mentally draining). To quantify work output merely by time fails to appreciate the much more important factor involved in work: efficiency. Working 5 hours, intensely, is draining. This author is silly for failing to realize that there's a reason Google engineers are allowed to work 11am-4pm: because they're competent, efficient, responsible, and probably don't waste much time (otherwise I don't see how they'd be employed there-- one of the most sought after & selective employers in the world)