> When you work those kind of hours, are you _actually_ doing value-adding or value-optimizing things, or just engaging in work theater? You're going to be doi

> When you work those kind of hours, are you _actually_ doing value-adding or value-optimizing things, or just engaging in work theater? You're going to be doing a similar total amount of productive work to elsewhere (possibly less because you're so tired), and engaging in work theatre for the rest of the time. As I wrote just last week [0], Japan's worker productivity is not good but that's only one measure and possibly not the most important to those who set the rules in Japan. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26450579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26450579