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The rest of it I can buy but not this part: > They can't fathom that hours in seat don't equal output. Or at least not the implication. Of course those thing
by bradleyjg 6y ago
The rest of it I can buy but not this part:
> They can't fathom that hours in seat don't equal output.
Or at least not the implication.
Of course those things aren’t strictly equal but it seems like wishful thinking to believe that all those Americans working hard are not accomplishing any more than their European colleagues taking 30 day vacations and leaving at five o’clock. Diminishing returns, sure, but zero returns I don’t buy. On the contrary it’s pretty clear the returns are meaningful.
Life is about trade-offs. It doesn’t do anyone any good to pretend there’s such a thing as a free lunch.
- tharkun__ 6y agoFair enough as like you say it's all a scale anyway. For the record I never left at exactly five or started at 9 for that matter back in Germany and I don't either where I am now (Canada). I never felt bad about leaving at 3 in Germany though. I did/do in Canada. _Every_time_.
- blunte 6y ago"Hours in seat" provide diminishing returns, just like "lines of code produced" do. It has been a measured fact that productivity per hour curves in the negative direction after about 7 hours per day (in sum, not necessarily contiguous).