Don't Work 80 Hours a Week for Elon Musk, or Anyone

Re:Don't Work 80 Hours a Week for Elon Musk, or Anyone by torstenvl on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:13PM (#18566040)

> Stanford economist John Pencanvel reviewed World War I-era factory data and more recent literature to conclude that exceeding 50 hours in a week leads to diminishing returns

Applicability questionable.

> exceeding 50 hours in a week ... may actually reduce output

> But Musk is smart. He’s not talking about that kind of efficiency. He’s talking about m[in]imizing what he, the man with $24 billion, spends on his own workforce.... [so he'll] try to draw extra work out of you

Extra work doesn't make him richer if it results in reduced output. The arguments here are in internal tension.

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Re:Don't Work 80 Hours a Week for Elon Musk, or Anyone by pesmhey on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:17PM (#18566058)

There’s also the tribal knowledge that you spend the last 10% of the time on 90% of the project. Perhaps every hour after 40 is diminishing, but required to achieve your goal. Could be true, could be a fallacy, but just saying that after a certain point you get diminishing returns maybe misses something either way.

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