>Family historian Stephanie Coontz writes that today’s workforce is so demanding that families can only handle having one person in the workforce. She shows how the average work week does not allow for people to take care of children, which means that one partner needs to drop out of the workforce and take care of kids.
No, no, no, no, no. This is not the way of the future, or even the way of today. This is a throwback to the past. Yahoo has a productivity problem because of incompetent management that cannot measure productivity, and sees butts-in-seats as the only way to start. They are regressing. Because of their dysfunction, they are trying to solve a problem that better companies already solved years ago.
A person simply cannot work productively for 12-16 hours a day over a career. You start to see diminishing returns at about six hours, and after nine or ten, the only reason you're still there is social climbing. And because you know you're not going home early no matter what, because you basically live at the office, you will naturally take breaks, screw off, and procrastinate. Working 8 to 8 for an Asian megacorp, I have seen it so many times. On the other hand, bankers, management consultants, lawyers, and startup founders who actually work hard 12-16 hours a day do not and cannot do it for a long career, they are running a sprint not a marathon to maximize short-term earnings in the hopes that they will reach their finish line, achieve "f--- you money" and be able to retire before they burn out.
No, no, no, no, no. This is not the way of the future, or even the way of today. This is a throwback to the past. Yahoo has a productivity problem because of incompetent management that cannot measure productivity, and sees butts-in-seats as the only way to start. They are regressing. Because of their dysfunction, they are trying to solve a problem that better companies already solved years ago.
A person simply cannot work productively for 12-16 hours a day over a career. You start to see diminishing returns at about six hours, and after nine or ten, the only reason you're still there is social climbing. And because you know you're not going home early no matter what, because you basically live at the office, you will naturally take breaks, screw off, and procrastinate. Working 8 to 8 for an Asian megacorp, I have seen it so many times. On the other hand, bankers, management consultants, lawyers, and startup founders who actually work hard 12-16 hours a day do not and cannot do it for a long career, they are running a sprint not a marathon to maximize short-term earnings in the hopes that they will reach their finish line, achieve "f--- you money" and be able to retire before they burn out.