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Replying to myself: also, at least in my experience, if your job is digging ditches, making well formatted powerpoints like in consulting, or some similar mindl
by version_five 3y ago
Replying to myself: also, at least in my experience, if your job is digging ditches, making well formatted powerpoints like in consulting, or some similar mindless work, you can pretty much just add more hours and be productive. For brain work, it doesn't work that way and six days will get you less output than four. I'm pretty sure this is accepted wisdom.
So either they have a bunch of mindless grinding work to do that doesn't require autonomous thought, or they're going against accepted practice for working productively. I'd be concerned if I was an investor.
- MaxBarraclough 3y agoIf I were an investor I'd have concerns about employee retention.
- rightbyte 3y agoI assure you, you can't just add hours to dig more ditches after a point. You mess up if you get tired. The only kind of work I have done where you could add hours was security guard, since you do almost nothing all day.
- carlob 3y agoI'm pretty sure that even the concentration of a security guard will start to falter after 20 consecutive hours. That is probably going to be to the detriment of the security of whatever they were supposed to guard.
- rightbyte 3y agoYe well you need to sleep too. I just ment that you can do longer shifts than other occupations. I worked 12h shifts, 13 shifts per month, and that is probably in the higher end of what's doable. Some people got really strange from working at night. So it is probably not very healthy ...