From the I can’t believe it section
From a letter in the Gazette: As a senior manager, I arrive at my office at 7:15 each morning: Half of my staff has already been there for at least half an hour, alert, switched on and productive. We usually eat lunch at our desks and don’t leave the building until at least 5 p.m., often later. There is no griping, no grumbling, no anger at “the bosses.” It is perceived as normal. He later goes on to say how no one takes vacation days, either. Amazingly, these people who work 50 hours a week at least, do not actually complain to their bosses about the amount of work, and therefore they don’t complain at all.
On the CBC: a Harvard professor talking about how overwork is really bad for productivity, so companies should take pains to avert it by not letting anyone work more than 80 hours a week.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
This is why I do not want to enter the workforce. I believe that I will have paid my insane work hour dues by the time I finish the diss and I should be rewarded for having the good sense to get the heck out of insane work hour land by not having to work more than forty hours a week.