It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan
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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
    50·
    6 months ago

    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
      27·
      6 months ago

      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·
        6 months ago

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