In all of the times I've hired employees or freelancers, I've only asked them to work overtime once, and that was three weeks before Christmas when we were behi

In all of the times I've hired employees or freelancers, I've only asked them to work overtime once, and that was three weeks before Christmas when we were behind schedule, based on their own timelines. In the end, it still caused friction, and we weren't able to keep that team on long-term. I don't regret that we had to do that (I was working overtime too), but I also don't understand why employers treat developers like garbage. IMO, developers are gold.