It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google - eviltoast
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The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google::The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 年前

    In an anonymous online poll on how many “focused hours of work” software engineers put in each day, 71 percent of the over four thousand respondents claimed to work six hours a day or less, while 12 percent said they did between one and two hours a day

    That doesn’t seem so bad. There are 8 hours in a work day, if you’re getting 6 hours of work done that’s good. And the 12% probably constitutes managers and “staff”/senior plus employees who work on tech designs and organizing work.

    Yeah I read this part and immediately felt like this employee is brainwashed.

    For the people who don’t get it: “8 hours of work DOES NOT MEAN 8 hours of labor.” Bathroom breaks. Mental breaks. Getting coffee. Eating lunch. Chit chatting.

    A lot of people gotta stop thinking the “If you got time to lean, you got time to clean” mentality.

    • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteEnglish
      26·
      1 年前

      Yeah that drives me nuts.

      People went from 9-5 to talking about 9-6, because that’s 8 hours of work and then breaks, but breaks were always a part of it. Factory shift workers doing 8 hours had time for a sandwich.

      • sndrtj@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        1 年前

        Interesting. Breaks are very commonly unpaid in my country. So an 8 hour work day means being in the office for 8.5 hours.