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It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google (thebaffler.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.website 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.nl 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] slumberlust@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It's not uncommon in the US for labor jobs, and it's bullshit.