I see a lot of cynicism about “code monkey” and privilege. For physical labor, 8h with mandatory breaks is possible. For the “code monkey”, it is scientifically

I see a lot of cynicism about “code monkey” and privilege. For physical labor, 8h with mandatory breaks is possible. For the “code monkey”, it is scientifically known that brain can’t focus and perform well for more than 4h. In addition the soul killing meetings and the wasted commutes also sap one’s mental energy. That all being said, such disdain for knowledge work in this thread is immensely alarming. Also, the example of going to another cubicle, chatting with colleagues, getting a coffee, going to the loo etc are for people in Corp where it is easy to hide your incompetence, for rest of us plebs, those are bs that probably count up to may be 15 minutes. On most days, I barely have time to complete enough pending reviews and doing my own stuff on top of useless meetings watching management flexing their arms on turf wars and irrelevant processes, after which am brain dead. At my workplace, only people spending 1h on coffee break and chitchatting or smoking are just management discussing their life and family, for us, such discussions are left for after work when we are still alive for a walk. Also this hour thing sounds to me suspiciously like a build up for statistics that, meatbags are so unproductive and lazy, look how our chatbot can gurgle stackoverflow examples in adequately coherent manner to replace all these lazy monkies. Disclaimer: Opinions are my own, you have right to disagree and share your constructive criticism.