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But why should we work 36-40 hour weeks? I'm only productive for about 5 hours per day of concentrated thought.

• t-writescode 2y ago
  Some jobs are thinking jobs, like software, accounting, screenwriting, basically the "creating for the first time" jobs. Some jobs are rote work jobs - manufacturing jobs, warehousing jobs, etc. Some jobs are butts-in-seats jobs, where you need a person physically there to "do the thing" - these are your customer-facing jobs. Your customer support, your banking teller jobs, etc. Each of these jobs has a comfortable "max amount of continuous" work time for different people. Since I can speak to it, in software, I'm only productive 4-6 hours a day with the rare day I enter obscene levels of flow and disappear for like 9 hours. I imagine many of the creative jobs are similar. I suppose the implications for 3-4 day, 'very high hour count' work week, in general* is one of the positions that can handle operating in the specific way they need to work for that long. * I understand that nursing is a 3-12's job. There's special details that make that the way it is - I think it has to do with nurse-patient changeover? I dunno, very outside my field.