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Maybe its just people are working too much, leading to lower output due to not being fresh. I just wish we could try different things, a 4 day workweek, or a da

Maybe its just people are working too much, leading to lower output due to not being fresh. I just wish we could try different things, a 4 day workweek, or a day off every other week and measure productivity. Where I have a hard time is we have a problem but we are changing nothing. Microsoft Japan has showed that a 4 day workweek improved productivity by 40%, so maybe less is more - https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776163853/microsoft-japan-says-4-day-workweek-boosted-workers-productivity-by-40 https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776163853/microsoft-japan-say... Also given that tech has almost fastfood levels of turnover cannot be great, people constantly leaving and knowledge being lost and the intense time sink of training new hires and interviewing not to mention recruiting and scouting out new people is not helping any productivity. Pay people decently, don't work them into the ground and watch your productivity jump. Very simple.

gremloni 5y ago
Even four days a week is too much to be honest though I don’t know if our current societal paradigm could handle anything less than that. With how productive and involved work is now, working white collar jobs are hard. It isn’t like 30-40 years ago when everyone worked at a relaxed pace at relatively low mentally intensive tasks.
mschuster91 5y ago
> Pay people decently, don't work them into the ground and watch your productivity jump. That's a question of accounting. Paying people better so that they don't churn is a long-term obligation (opex), whereas recruiting costs are capex - and especially for "cannon fodder" aka junior developers you don't have much in that area anyway. Constant churn keeps wages as low as the market will bear, prevents organizing of employees and guarantees a constant supply of "fresh blood" aka new ideas. Personally I believe that paying people better is the way to go, the problem is that stock markets reward low-opex operations more than low-capex/long-term sustainable ones.

gremloni 5y ago

Even four days a week is too much to be honest though I don’t know if our current societal paradigm could handle anything less than that. With how productive and involved work is now, working white collar jobs are hard. It isn’t like 30-40 years ago when everyone worked at a relaxed pace at relatively low mentally intensive tasks.

mschuster91 5y ago

> Pay people decently, don't work them into the ground and watch your productivity jump. That's a question of accounting. Paying people better so that they don't churn is a long-term obligation (opex), whereas recruiting costs are capex - and especially for "cannon fodder" aka junior developers you don't have much in that area anyway. Constant churn keeps wages as low as the market will bear, prevents organizing of employees and guarantees a constant supply of "fresh blood" aka new ideas. Personally I believe that paying people better is the way to go, the problem is that stock markets reward low-opex operations more than low-capex/long-term sustainable ones.