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Re:Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us from a Productivity Slowdown by futuremeats on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:18PM (#11227501)
Do you believe the numbers about how the average workweek has gotten shorter over the past 100 years?

Table 2 and 3 in the article below contain info like what I'm talking about.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/

I generally consider myself a pro-capitalist rational optimist, but we are a lot richer than we were 100 years ago, and my workweek is still 50+ hours a week. I wonder when we will get those 10 hour workweeks...

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Re:Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us from a Productivity Slowdown by Johnnybe on Saturday March 05, 2016 @11:11AM (#11229863)
Do you get paid overtime? If not, why are you working 10 "free" hours a week? It's people like you that are ruining it for the rest of us.
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Re:Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us from a Productivity Slowdown by ktRolster on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:36PM (#11227586)
Why are you working 50 hours a week? I hope you're getting compensated extra for the extra work you're doing.
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Re:Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us from a Productivity Slowdown by logicfiction on Saturday March 05, 2016 @01:55PM (#11230485)
I don't know OP's situation, but there are companies out there that will upfront tell you expected hours for your salaried position being X. A few years ago, a recruiter told me 65 hours was expected for a role at their mega-tech company.
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Re:Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us from a Productivity Slowdown by ktRolster on Saturday March 05, 2016 @06:17PM (#11231570)
When that's happened to me, I didn't take the job.
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Re:Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us from a Productivity Slowdown by Johnnybe on Saturday March 05, 2016 @07:10PM (#11231776)
Same here.
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