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Costly? I was under the impression that this kind of overtime isn't compensated in a lot of cases? I've heard one reasoning that if they wouldn't do the (free)
by OSButler 11y ago
Costly? I was under the impression that this kind of overtime isn't compensated in a lot of cases?
I've heard one reasoning that if they wouldn't do the (free) overtime, then there wouldn't be a company for them to work at, as it couldn't afford to pay their employees then. However, this was a mid-sized local business and not a multi-national corporation.
- hardwaresofton 11y agoYes, lots of unpaid overtime being worked in Japan by salarymen. At the very least, the recent college grads do it (I've heard first hand accounts, though I guess that's basically hearsay to anyone reading this).
- ranko 11y agoThe price of overtime to an employer isn't only (or even mostly) the pay - it's also the impact on the rest of the employee's work. Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister claim in "Peopleware" that "there will be more or less an hour of undertime for every hour of overtime".