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"The guy working bare minimum 40 hour weeks isn't going to get fired so long as he stays productive... but he's obviously not putting in any effort to progress

• exelius 13y ago
  No; compared to the guy working 45 hours a week. You put in 40 hours for your employer doing your current job. He does the same but also puts in 5 hours of his own time learning how to do the next job he wants. Who's going to get the promotion assuming you both have equal production? (however you measure production, which certainly should not be lines of code)
  • johnward 13y ago
    I agree that in some situations that's true but not always. Like some of the others say, just because you put in more hours doesn't mean you provide more value to the company. This is different in a consulting role because you literally do have to work (bill) more hours to make more money. The more productive you are the less money you make per hour, so you raise rates. I'm not an independent consultant. If I bill 60 hours I get paid the same as if I bill 30 hours. There is very little incentive to work overtime. I rarely work overtime unless it's crucial. I'm doing fine in my career. I'm not going to grind out 80 hour weeks for a chance of maybe getting a 10k per year raise. You pull too many 80 hour weeks and you might as well be working fast food on a dollar per hour basis.