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by DrMcFacekick
5113 days ago
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Maybe it's because I'm not at a company like Google, but all articles like this seem to do two things:
1) Make everyone who doesn't put in 130 hours a week at work feel like they're not Working Hard Enough
2) Legitimize unpaid overtime/ worker exploitation It seems that the quantity of "time spent at work" is emphasized over the quality of actual work done. I'd be curious what her work quality was over 130 hours, especially once she was in week 5-6 of working that much. |
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I'm pretty sure most people understand that the only people who are going to even come close to what she's talking about here are A. founders, and B. early employees with significant equity stakes. IOW, people who stand to benefit to an extreme degree, if the company succeeds. In that case, it might actually make sense to work those kind of crazy hours, since the possible payoff means financial independence and the chance to live out some of one's dreams.
Now a company that's routinely asking non-founder employees with no equity to work more than ~40 hours a week on a regular basis... yeah, that's just not necessary.