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There's an exception to the 40 hour week called comp time. You get paid for excess hours by being given paid time off. The 40 hour week is already legislated.
by wildgift 14y ago
There's an exception to the 40 hour week called comp time. You get paid for excess hours by being given paid time off.
The 40 hour week is already legislated. If you work over 40 you are supposed to get overtime. Overtime needs to be requested, though - that's an important point. If you're going over 40 you're supposed to tell your boss to get permission, and the boss is supposed to say, "nah, go home."
I know it doesn't work that way.
- kamaal 14y ago>>I know it doesn't work that way. Its because as programmers we never work 40 hours productively. Quite a but of our time goes in procrastinating, reading stuff on sites like HN, Facebooking etc. There fore there is almost an untold understanding that 40 hours is not to be taken literally.
- capisce 14y agoWell, the article quotes research saying that knowledge workers only have six good hours in them. They need to fill the rest of the time somehow to not go insane.
- thirdtruck 14y agoAt the same time, we require an inordinate amount of "back of mind" processing time in order to perform so much problem solving. In other words, "the code's compiling" explanation for idling covers the linking up of modules in the code and in our brains' mental models of it.
- gasull 14y agoPlease speak for yourself. I don't procrastinate. Most days I don't even check my personal email at work. Maybe I should, because despite not procrastinating I'm still pretty much forced to be 50 or 60 hours a week in the office.