Last summer there were a bunch of stories reporting findings that companies that experimented with a 4-day work week saw productivity gains over the traditional 5-day, so this billionaire’s opinion sounds out of alignment with reality
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It's burnout waiting to happen
So? Then you fire them and hire fresh meat.
Humans are replaceable, no?
/S, of course
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We are slowly shifting to a 4x8=32h work week here. 60h long term has nothing to do with productivity anymore.
"Fuck productivity! You're my bitch and I'm here to show it!"
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He fucked his assistant at work and got divorced over it.
ahahahaha!
What an idjit.
Lmao dude trying to claw back some relevance with bait.
Sergei Brin has not accomplished anything since Pagerank and it must make him feel very small especially since his ass got dumped quite recently.
Sad little billionaire.
Well, if Sergey Brin wants to work 60 hour weeks, be my guest. Sounds like a good idea for the CEO class, since they should really justify what they're paid.
Sounds like a good idea for the CEO class
Mate, he's a class or two ABOVE the CEO class. He's in the "trillionaire soon maybe?" class where you don't get to be by just being a CEO, you have to own major stock in a massively overvalued company that just keeps on growing.
He should be working at LEAST 50000 hour weeks to justify his continued growth of wealth at this point. Why the lazy bastard isn't doing it is beyond me.
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I'm sorry that Sergey Brin apparently doesn't have hobbies or family/friends that care about him, but 60 is still wrong. We have computers and work multipliers and have perfected efficiency... We don't need to spend the majority of our lives toiling anymore! Some would argue against 40, but at least that gives a balanced workday: 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of leisure. And I say all that as someone who actually likes their job...
Commuting should be included in the 8 hour work day. I shouldn't have to give up some of my leisure time to drive to work.
This would also incentivize denser cities.
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Ahh, the typical manager misconception. Nope. Long work hours don't equal high productivity.
But I can understand that misconception, as it takes those people up there many more hours to get a single useful idea compared to those under them who actually do the work and earn the money.
"Arbeit macht frei."
Irony alert: pushing humans harder while building AI to replace them—brilliant strategy, Sergey.
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I thought 6 hours per day were best? Also, where I work, we’ve gone through voluntary overtime, working 60 hour weeks. People start to look like zombies and were more prone to mistakes by week three. It is simply not sustainable.
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I was gonna say after a few weeks of 60 hour weeks I’d be fucked. Didn’t realise that was legit.
I honestly think it's more like 30. If we're all just making numbers up.
Has there ever been a better call to eat the rich?!
double the salary is also a very sweet spot for productivity
people like this shouldn't be allowed to finish their sentences on their own terms. it should be cut short by an extreme force.
Outside of the google office would be a sweet spot for a guillotine.
Sergi can eat donkey dick.
Only if it's for two people - 30 hours each!
60 hours is the sweet spot for maximal control over your employees life with only the normal amount of suicides.
What a pile of human garbage.
Why? Fuck me, that’s like a 12 hour day over a 5 day week. No-one is doing productive 12 hours day for very long, so he’s basically just arguing for an adult version of fucking daycare here.
...or 8.6 hours a day 7 days a week with no days off. There's no way to math this that isn't "fuck you, you don't deserve a life outside of working to replace yourself with AI."
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60/5=12/day 8/day for sleep Let's say it takes me an hour each way to get to and from the office. Maybe 1hr for dinner
Now I have 1 hour/day to do everything else I need to do? How did this guy invent Google?
You sleep at the office or work 6 or 7 days. People aren't often doing 60 hour weeks by working 12x5 and then 2 off.
Edit: Google even has those sleeping pods!
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Rich asshole says out of touch moronic thing. More at 7.
If you are a CEO, sure. But if you are not then it's quite the opposite.
If only these capitalist pigs could put themselves in the shoes of others.
When is technology going to make our lives better?
---Do most harm---
I'd be down to work the 60hrs if it was voluntary overtime. But constantly? Probably not.
Fuck work
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