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Re:The key to loving your job in the age of burnout by scriptkiddy on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:03PM (#19626636)
I agree with your 80/20 prinicpal. However, I don't believe that staying late at the office is any indicator of productivity. In fact, I would argue that staying late at the office may have the opposite connotation.

Sure, staying late makes sense sometimes(deadlines to meet, production bugs, making a client happy, etc), however, staying late on a regular basis would indicate to me that these people are either very inefficient, need some extra manpower, or have a process problem.

Hours worked does not equate directly to productivity.I think believing that they do is a toxic mindset.

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Re:The key to loving your job in the age of burnout by codesushi42 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:30PM (#19626913)
That or they have terrible management that forces them to work late. Been there myself.
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Re:The key to loving your job in the age of burnout by arvinsim on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:27AM (#19632380)
> Hours worked does not equate directly to productivity.I think believing that they do is a toxic mindset.

Unfortunately, a lot of companies believe in this mindset. Heck, we have that 996 debacle on the front page right now.

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