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HBO Max (pre merger) had a 32hr work week in the summer. (Not sure about now). Productivity remained constant, there were plenty of Jira stats to back that up.
by com2kid 1y ago
HBO Max (pre merger) had a 32hr work week in the summer. (Not sure about now).
Productivity remained constant, there were plenty of Jira stats to back that up.
Meetings got shorter and more organized, small talk was cut down. People hustled more to get stuff finished.
There have been studies showing we only have 20-30 productive hours of knowledge work per week. Adding more hours to the work week doesn't really result in more getting done, although it can result in a project actually going backwards if tired devs start submitting buggy code at a rate faster than bugs are being fixed.
- hinkley 1y agoI’ve gotten a better sense of when I’m grinding gears in the afternoon but if you’re really focused on a vexing problem it can be tricky to check in with yourself. Ids say probably about every three months I leave work one day thinking I’m five hours away from solving a problem, then overnight I realize I’m doing it the hard way, delete a third of my code and I’m done in 30-60 minutes, mostly due to tests and build times. I think more and longer breaks would also help.
- gruez 1y ago>Productivity remained constant, there were plenty of Jira stats to back that up. Is there a public source for this?
- com2kid 1y agoSadly no, they missed a great chance to do some PR blog posting. It sure made recruitment easy though. "We don't pay as well as your current job but my on call has gone off twice ever since I started here and you get 3 day weekends all summer long."