12 ms·
Once You Try a Three-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back
by dylanz 2y ago
Once You Try a Three-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back
- yarg 2y agoThis sort of snarky response fails to consider the actual benefits - for both the employer and the employee. Often by the end of the week, people in complex positions are well past the point of diminishing returns - pushing them harder may work in the short-term, but it's a recipe for burnout. It's better to have someone operating closer to their peek performance for longer - even if you sacrifice a day overall.
- t-writescode 2y agoAs I've been working for myself, this is exactly what I've noticed. The exhaustion and stress of pushing myself "another day" for "just another feature" is absolutely not worth the burnout that comes immediately after.
- yarg 2y agoOh no man - that's just regular exhaustion. Burnout's more insidious and pernicious than that - and it takes far more than a few days of rest to get over it.
- BizarroLand 2y ago2 days off for the weekend just isn't enough to fully recuperate once you're in the burnout zone. I think if I were to be fired I would like to take 2-3 months off to build up before I started looking for a new job, but that's only possible due to having some savings I could tap into. Back of the napkin calculations say I would need about $4,000/month liquid cash to not be in danger. Add another 1 month barrier in and I would need $16,000 on hand to take 3 months off assuming that I got another equally paying job almost immediately.
- chaos_emergent 2y agoYes, and when we're productive enough to do it, it'll probably happen.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoI, for one, am okay with sliding down a slippery slope towards a world without labor, if such a thing can exist.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoMore like "once you try an 8-hour workday, it's hard to go back."
- euroderf 2y agoThat was decades ago. Now aim for 6!