> Thus a programmer who works 55 hours per week is twice as productive as one who works 40 hours per week There is plenty of studies done on this that shows th

> Thus a programmer who works 55 hours per week is twice as productive as one who works 40 hours per week There is plenty of studies done on this that shows that you can get an increase in productivity by working more hours for a short time, but that if you go over ~35h/week for a longer period of time, the productivity drops and some overtime might actually result in negative productivity.