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In the end, do you think the 15-16 hour work day was close to being as productive as two 8 hour work days? I feel that in the end you will create more harm tha
by koyote 13y ago
In the end, do you think the 15-16 hour work day was close to being as productive as two 8 hour work days?
I feel that in the end you will create more harm than good as more mistakes creep in during the later hours of the day which will then have to fixed the next day. (aside from your mental/physical health going to shit that is)
- patio11 13y agoAt the best of times, dear God no. At the worst of times, a week of 16+ hour days probably accomplished less than two 4 hour days. You know how great your ability to debug a hard problem through multiple levels of a call stack is when you're so tired that you don't know what day of the week it is and cannot remember the name of any Java implementation of the Map interface? Yeah. Those were probably not my most productive days in my career. Now stick six months of them end to end.
- dsr_ 13y agoBetter question: does working a 15-16 hour day, day after day, result in higher productivity than 8 hour days? I suspect that there are no creative/logical jobs where that is the case.
- masklinn 13y agoI doubt there's any work where this is the case. 8h to eat, wash and rest does not leave sufficient rest time for physical recuperation any more than mental, at least in the general case (I'm sure there are people at the end of the bell curve for whom it's sufficient).