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by eli_gottlieb 5191 days ago
>I think a large part of not saying "We need to work longer" is that if the work is interesting and rewarding enough, then employees will WANT to work longer.

Not necessarily, no. It's entirely possible your employees have lives outside work.
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btr41n 5191 days ago
Right, but I would say that the general startup mentality is that you will be working more than the average work day. So telling people to work longer, rather than inspiring people to work longer, is usually not the best way to go about it. To what extent can you actually require someone to work longer anyway?
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eli_gottlieb 5191 days ago
>To what extent can you actually require someone to work longer anyway?

You can reprimand and/or fire them if they don't. Seems to work for most American companies.

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dasil003 5190 days ago
Doesn't work for programmers though because unlike assembly line workers, there's no way to precisely monitor their productivity, so if you force them to stay late they can just mentally check out.
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eli_gottlieb 5190 days ago
Well yes, which is why you should be trying to get programmers to agree with you on their hours.
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