That’s when the ulcer started — The Nation
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A personal note: During my travels to foreign countries I encounter one of the most frequented questions, "how come you guys in America work all the time?" Of course, I don't even bother to tell them "but we get TWO weeks of paid vacation after working diligently for three years" in order to prove them wrong! They would never understand how good we have it here.
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Overworking is perhaps partly due to the fix cost a company must provide for each employee.
In theory, you could hire 10 people for 400 hours of work a week. But each person need pension, paid sick days, maternity leave, insurance, training, a computer, a desk, a chair, a parking, more toilet space... Those costs might be why companies are choosing to hire 9 people to do 450 hours of work instead, knowing fully well they are of lowering quality. Economic uncertainty also makes it risky to have a larger staff.
I don't have a solution. I just think that most people already know that longer work week isn't necessarily productive. The larger problem is that we have become more demanding as consumers, and less empathic employers.
amazingly that graphic is damn close to my cycle. I will do 60 hours weeks for about 3-4 weeks and then for about 1-2 weeks I will be useless beyond 35-40 hours....
productivity is at its highest rate during the 60 hour weeks and then slows in the 35-40. It's literally like doing sprints for a half hour and then jogging for 15 minutes and then back to sprints.
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