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

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

My real-world experience has been that upper management 
will usually do something *else* that stupidly upsets the 
applecart of people happily working longer hours and propels 
those people into looking for new jobs well before they hit 
any physiological mind and body limits.  The ability of bad 
management to ruin something before it runs out on its own 
should never be underestimated.

It is also probably worth remembering that the original poster 
was in a snit partly because the person in question put in 40 
hour weeks while the rest of the team was putting in *45* 
hour weeks.  If we were talking about a 60-hour-per-week
boiler room operation I'd be right with you, but I've yet to see 
anyone crumble under the pressure of being in a decently-
managed office for nine hours a day.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Morgan" <Jim -dot- Morgan -at- jdsu -dot- com>
> Though I usually agree with Gene, I don't even believe his idea of
> managers and employees who like long hours finding each other would
> work. The human mind and body are subject to certain limits, plus the
> situation reduces flexibility in the project (when one 60-hour person
> goes down, you lose 50% more labor hours from your project schedule).
> Under those strains, other problems begin to creep into the environment
> that increase the stresses over time to levels the team can't withstand.

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