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S.F. tech founder says 84-hour workweek approach is ‘because I’m San Franciscan’
(www.sfchronicle.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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Good thing they don't pay hourly wages then.
Have you read my comment correctly?
Yeah. They don't pay less, though. They pay one person what other companies pay people to work 40 hours as a salary and make them work 80 or more. They may only get 60 hours worth of productivity in those 80 hours "worked", so yeah they'd get more productivity out of two people working 40 hours each or probably even two workers working 30 hours each. But they are only paying one worker's salary and getting more than 40 hours labor.
Except that's now how people work. You get increasingly less efficient the longer you work, so someone working 32 hours puts out more output than someone working 40 hours.
Companies that switched to 4 day work weeks saw sustained increases in productivity and satisfaction.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1234271434/4-day-workweek-successful-a-year-later-in-uk
On the other side, companies that push for longer and longer hours tend to get people zombie-ing through the week and do less work. They just LOOK more productive cause they're physically present at their job and respond to messages beyond the work week.