This actually tracks well with every Google product that they haven't killed already getting drastically worse over the past decade - ThreadSky

ianboudreau.com • 1 day ago

This actually tracks well with every Google product that they haven't killed already getting drastically worse over the past decade

Reposted from The New York Times

“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, wrote in a memo. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity.” nyti.ms/41yElFc

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meganerd89.bsky.social•21 hours ago

People cannot have and raise children working sixty hour weeks and we know a lot of that is unpaid depending on the position. It’s just gross. No one wants to slave away until they die to barely make ends meet. It takes away all joy from life and it’s why students/adults are so apathetic.

larunasoftpaw.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I'm gonna go ahead and drop this WHO study on working hours.
https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2021-long-working-hours-increasing-deaths-from-heart-disease-and-stroke-who-ilo

danubee.bsky.social•21 hours ago

larunasoftpaw.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Productivity also drops off a cliff after 40 hours so the boss is killing your body without any benefit anyway.

nesler.org•1 day ago

I've worked in digital marketing for most of my adult life, and I've given up and started using Bing. Which... Isn't something I ever could have imagined.

madiomac.bsky.social•17 hours ago

What a tool

ianboudreau.com•1 day ago

Every single one

tristanpalmgren.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Why won't people have more kids?"

glenthefossa.bsky.social•1 day ago

What work are they doing at Google these days that demands 60 hour weeks? Making Gmail worse?

ianboudreau.com•1 day ago

Apparently!

skallagrimr.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I like his phrasing of "at least every weekday" as if you could be more in office than every weekday.

ianboudreau.com•22 hours ago

Hey, there's weekends too you know! What were you doing with those days anyway? Wasting time with your family? Get with the grindset

shoehornwithteeth.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Meanwhile in reality, diminishing returns start setting in around 25-30 hours of work in a week.

thesamejames.bsky.social•1 day ago

Remember someone tweeting years back that they were leaving tech because they valued spending all day at work over productivity. "Why do you want to go home at night? We have a ping pong table and popcorn machine in the break-room."

ztiworoh.bsky.social•1 day ago

God, they're going to try to reframe a "full time job" as 60 hours aren't they?

phillipgcox.bsky.social•1 day ago

100%

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