Re: 40-hour weeks (was Re: FWD: Lack...)

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

"Excessive" as applied to work hours is essentially a rubber
standard.  As we have seen, there are some who think that
anything over 40 is the path to burnout, while others are
just starting to get warmed up at 50.  So what it boils down
to is that employees who like to be engaged for long hours
and employers who need employees who like to be engaged 
for long hours need to do a better job of finding each other.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>

> I agree that excessive work hours are harmful to productivity,
> efficiency, quality, and job satisfaction. But I once worked on an
> over-40-hour-a-week team where all of the above were excellent. We
> probably averaged around 45 hours per week; if we had averaged 50 hours,
> *that* would have been excessive. For us. In our situation. At that
> time.

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