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Return-to-office orders look like a way for rich, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees::White-collar workers temporarily enjoyed unprecedented power during the pandemic to decide where and how they worked.

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[–] Nurgle@lemmy.world 247 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"These elite CEOs probably work 100-plus hours a week and they're much more work-focused."

No they don’t. Full stop. Let’s stop fabricating this bullshit. That’s 16hrs a day M-F with 10hrs Sat/Sun. Elon Musk is not doing those hours period, let alone while also finding time to play Elden Ring.

[–] Moyer1666@lemmy.ml 113 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah people need to stop acting like they're the most hardworking people out there. They definitely are not. Especially when you can be CEO of multiple companies and no one bats an eye.

[–] mouth_brood@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, let's do some quick math. Let's count billable hours in a day with a minimum billable hour being 1 hour. If you work a 6 hour work day, and can complete the average task in 15 minutes, that works out to 24 possible billable hours in one day accounting for a total of 90 minutes of actual work.

So yeah, on paper it's actually really easy to "work" 100 hours per week

[–] kiku123@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I totally agree. I always think it's weird when they have interviews or podcasts about talking to CEOs and they all say something like "you just have to work hard enough". Yeah. Okay.

Where are the podcasts where they ask lottery winners for some vapid aphorism about hard work paying off?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They could and should do a podcast of that married couple who gamed and won the Michigan State lottery... I mean that was a lot of hardwork lol.

Jerry and Marge Selbee if anyone wants to look them up.

[–] Tandybaum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It was a pretty decent little movie also

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if Elon Musk is putting in 100-hour weeks, he's the CEO of five companies, which means being CEO of one company is a half-time gig at most.

[–] hihello@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Highly doubt he actually plays Elden Ring

[–] nyar@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He played it enough to make one of the worst builds I've ever seen. A heavy rolling mage with two shields......