Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go...
by st3v3r on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:22PM
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How do you ensure that they're answering it honestly, though? Or, less maliciously, that they're answering it with something in line with what you'd think is a decent work life balance?
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Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go...
by martincmartin on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:10PM
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Its not really in their interest to answer dishonestly: if I take the job and it turns out the work/life balance sucks, I'll leave, and they'll have wasted a lot of time & effort on me.
Also, the people I'm asking are typically engineers, they're not inclined to lie about things like this, and they're not expert spin doctors. Plus, when I go for the full day interview and talk to many people, I'll ask many of them about it.
Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go...
by estefan on Saturday August 20, 2016 @06:28AM
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If they don't answer honestly and get annoyed with you when you clock off after your agreed hours, it's their tough shit.
I worked for two young guys once who'd never had proper jobs, much less ever managed anyone before, and they had the cheek to have a go at me for only working my hours. I told them it wasn't my company and walked off. They couldn't sack me for working my contracted hours, regardless of if other people were working more for free...